OSHA Inspection: COOPER B-LINE, INC.

Issued

Dec 1, 2004

Abate by

Jan 20, 2005

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $6,300

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:
The employer did not furnish a place of employment free from recognized
hazards that were
causing, or likely to cause, death or serious physical harm to employees,
in that on or about
October 29, 2004, the employer did not provide adequate safeguards or
protection
from the
recognized hazard of being struck by and caught in/between an automated
overhead gantry
and the upper part of the laser load frame. On or about October 29, 2004,
at Cooper B-Line,
two employees were working at the Cincinnati CL-707 CO2 laser #50243. The
employees
were examining a piece of recently cut sheet metal, when they were struck
from behind by
the overhead gantry and caught in/between the upper part of the load frame
of the laser.
Among other methods, some feasible and acceptable methods to correct this
hazard are:
Safeguarding devices such as presence-sensing devices, interlock barriers,
perimeter
guarding, safety light curtains, awareness barriers, and awareness
signals. These devices
shall be designed and constructed to prevent the operator or any other
person from having
any part of his body in contact with moving machinery.