OSHA Inspection: WALMART PUERTO RICO INC DBA SAMS CLUB

Issued

Jun 25, 2009

Abate by

Jun 30, 2009

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $1,350 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act:  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 physical harm to employees in
that employees were
exposed to:
Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico:
El patrono no
proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten
causando o que
puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados
estaban expuestos
a:
a.  Receive injuries such as: fracture, amputation, etc. due to door
malfinction safety
switch from cardboard compactor used by employees, trademark CRAM-A-LOT,
Serial
#7080. The machine was located in the warehouse area. Among others method,
one
feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is not
used the cardboard
until the deffect was correct as recomended by the manufacture.
a.  Recibir lesiones tales como: fractura, amputacion, etc. por mal
funcionamiento del
dispositivo de seguridad de la puerta de apisonadora de carton usada por
los empleados,
marca CRAM-A-LOT, Serie #7080. La maquina estaba localizada en el area de
almacen.
Entre otros metodos, un metodo aceptable y posible de corregir este riesgo
es no usar
la apisonadora de carton hasta que el defecto se haya corregido segun
recomendacion del
manufacturero.

Issued

Jun 25, 2009

Abate by

Jun 30, 2009

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $1,350 Reduced

Issued

Jun 25, 2009

Abate by

Jun 30, 2009

Penalty

Initial $1,125 · Current $338 Reduced

Issued

Jun 25, 2009

Abate by

Jun 30, 2009

Penalty

Initial $450