OSHA Inspection: QUALITEX, INC.

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Nov 4, 1988

Penalty

Initial $480 · Current $480

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 employee which were
free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to emploees in that employees were exposed to
serious injury from lifting tasks without administative or engineering
controls:
a) Extrustion Area-lines 1, 2, 3 and 4: The lifting tasks entailed the
following steps:
1) Employees were required to pull boxes from extrusion lines over to
a scale.
2) Employees were then required to lift these boxes up onto the scale.
3) In the case of lines 2 and 3, employees were required to lift the
boxes off the scale and onto the floor. They then pulled the boxes
over to a pallet and lifted the boxes onto the pallet. Employees on
lines 1 and 4 lifted the boxes directly from the scale onto the
pallet.
The evaluation of this manual lifting task indicates that employees are
exposed to an increased risk of musculoskeletal injuries in populations
exposed to similar conditions.
The injury and illness records for 1986 and 1987 documented that there
was a pattern of musculoskeletal/overexertion injuries.
Step 1- Effective administrative protection, such as employee training,
physical assessment, job rotation, etc. shall be provided as an interim
protective measure until feasible engineering or permanent
administrative controls can be implemented which will reduce employee
exposure to nominal risk.
Step 2 - Submit to the Area Director a written detailed plan of
abatement outlining a schedule for the implementation of engineering or
administrative measures to control employee injury due to manual lifting
tasks. Engineering controls to reduce musculoskeletal stress include,
but are not limited to job redesign, reduction of the horizontal and
vertical load distance from the body, reduction of the lifting frequency
or weight, and use of mechanical lifting aids. This plan shall include
at a minimum, target dates for the following actions which must be
consistent with the dates required by this citation.
1) Evaluation of the conditions, locations and manual lifting activities
that the employees are performing at the onset of musculoskeletal
injuries.
2) Evaluation of applicable control measure(s).
3) Procurement, installation and operation of selected control measures.
4) Monitoring to assure effective utilization of the control measure(s).
Step 3 - Abatement shall have been completed by implementation of
feasible engineering or administrative controls, upon verification of
their effectiveness in reducing the occurrence of musculoskeletal
injuries.

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 13, 1988

Penalty

Initial $160 · Current $160

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 16, 1988

Penalty

Initial $80 · Current $80

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Sep 14, 1988

Penalty

Initial $160 · Current $160

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 29, 1988

Penalty

Initial $80 · Current $80

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 29, 1988

Penalty

Initial $80 · Current $80

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 29, 1988

Penalty

Initial $80 · Current $80

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Sep 14, 1988

Penalty

Initial $160 · Current $160

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Penalty

Initial $160 · Current $160

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Aug 13, 1988

Penalty

Initial $80 · Current $80

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

Abate by

Sep 6, 1988

Penalty

Initial $480 · Current $480

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 29, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Sep 14, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 29, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 16, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 29, 1988

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Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

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Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988

Issued

Aug 10, 1988

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Aug 22, 1988