OSHA Inspection: BUCKEYE FIRE EQUIPMENT COMPANY

Issued

Jan 25, 2010

Abate by

Feb 2, 2010

Penalty

Initial $4,000 · Current $4,000

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
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 struck-by hazards:
a)at the stainless steel production area, on or about
October 29, 2009, employee was not adequately protected
from struck-by injuries during the pressurized leak
testing of thirty pound fire extinguisher bodies in the
event that a fire extinguisher body explosively failed.
Among other methods, two applicable and feasible methods of
abatement is to test the thirty pound fire extinguisher bodies
hydrostatically or pressure leak test thirty pound fire
extinguisher bodies in an vault or room designed to contain
the potential energy of an explosive failure and view the test
remotely by camera if necessary.