OSHA Inspection: ELKHORN RIVER FARMS, LLC.

Issued

Oct 19, 2012

Abate by

Nov 9, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,940 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1):     The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative:    A Elkhorn River Farms, LLC : The employer did not have a written Lockout Tagout Program for employees performing maintenance activities on equipment located in the workplace.

Issued

Oct 19, 2012

Abate by

Nov 9, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $2,940 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1):     One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and    In the potatoe sorting area: The employer failed to ensure that employees were protected from ingoing pinch points caused by mechanical chain driven rollers on the Volm sorting machines.