OSHA Inspection: TIETEX WEAVING, LLC DBA TIETEX INTERIORS, INC.

Issued

Jan 16, 2009

Abate by

Jan 22, 2009

Penalty

Initial $963 · Current $722 Reduced

General-duty citation text

North Carolina General Statute 95-129(1) of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of North Carolina:  The
employer did not furnish each of his employees conditions of employment
and a place of employment free
from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or
serious physical harm to employees in
that employees were exposed to:
a)Facility - the Hyster and Allis Chalmers forklifts used for materials
handling purposes
were equipped with rollover protection, however the forklifts were not
equipped with
seatbelts.  There were seatbelt retrofit kits available for the forklifts.
REFERENCE:  ASME B56.1-1993, Part II, Paragraph 5.3.19, Operating Safety
Rules and
Practices, Traveling.
An active operator protection device or system, when provided, shall be
used.
Operator protection in the event of tipover is intended to reduce the risk
of
entrapment
of the head and torso between the truck and the ground but may not protect
the
operator against all possible injury (see para. 7.2.2).
REFERENCE:  OSHA Standard Interpretation:  Enforcement of the Use of Seat
Belts on
Powered Industrial Trucks in General Industry, 10/09/1996.
NOTE:  Among other methods of abatement, one feasible and acceptable
method to correct
this hazard is to retrofit the forklifts with seatbelts, then require all
employees to wear the
seatbelts during forklift operations.

Issued

Jan 16, 2009

Abate by

Jan 22, 2009

Issued

Jan 16, 2009

Abate by

Jan 22, 2009