OSHA Inspection: MOUNTAIRE FARMS OF NORTH CAROLINA CORP.

Issued

May 23, 2012

Abate by

May 28, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,550 · Current $3,185 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 to 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 struck by hazards:
a)plant parking lots, front of building -  employees not protected from
vehicular traffic using the
main entrance of the plant where employees walk from parking area across
the roadway.
b)plant, yard area, rear of building - employees not protected from
vehicular traffic, in reverse
and forward mode, in the yard area of the plant from receiving to shipping
where employees
walk between the plant and shops with designated pedestrian and/or walk
areas.
Abatement Note:
1)Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method is to
a)Designate employee pedestrian and/or cross areas.
b)Develop and implement procedures for employees and drivers about the
designated cross areas.
c)Drivers to yield to pedestrian traffic crossing roadways.