OSHA Inspection: KANN ENTERPRISES, INC.

Issued

Sep 7, 2007

Abate by

Oct 3, 2007

Penalty

Initial $2,250 · Current $1,350 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The
employer did not furnish
employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized
hazards that were
causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in
that employees were
exposed to:
The hazard of being struck by rebounding or falling tires during the
loading of over-the-
road trailers at M and K docks.
ANSI A11.0-1965 (R1970), published by the Illuminating Engineering
Society, in Table
I-Levels of Illumination, under the category of Materials Handing, an
illumination level
of 10 footcandles when loading inside of truck bodies and freight cars.
The flexible arm
dock lights had been removed from the ten truck bays at K dock and from
the thirty-three
bays at M dock. The trailers are loaded around the clock.  During daylight
hours, there
was available light filtering through the tops of the fiberglass-topped
trailers,
but there
was no available light at the fronts of the solid-topped trailers.  This
condition made it
difficult to judge distances and see the tires as they were stacked in the
trailer, increasing
the likelihood of missing the mark when tossing the tires up onto the
stack and thereby
causing the tire to rebound back into the employee's face, head, or torso.

Issued

Sep 7, 2007

Abate by

Oct 3, 2007

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $2,700 Reduced