OSHA Inspection: R.J.B. PLUMBING AND HEATING INC.

Issued

Apr 23, 2001

Abate by

Apr 26, 2001

Penalty

Initial $375 · Current $282 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 caught in rotating parts of a Rigid
300 electric pipe
threader:
A) 7th and Martin Luther King Blvd. Newark, NJ -Building 3-0
Employees were exposed the hazard of being caught in rotating parts of the
equipment in use.
The employees were using a Rigid 300 electric pipe threader which was not
equipped with
safeguards which would cause the machine to shut off in the event an
employee got caught in
rotating parts.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this hazard is
to install a constant pressure control switch as required by the American
National Standards
Institute B208.1 Section 4.4.
Violation observed on or about 04/05/01