OSHA Inspection: ALLPASS CORPORATION

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-11-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3500.00 · Current $2100.00 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 energizing, 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:    On and before 5/2/2013, the employer did not have a lockout tagout program established and implemented.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2100.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(g)(1): An educational program was not provided for all employees to familiarize them with the general principles of fire extinguisher use and the hazards involved with incipient stage fire fighting:    On and before 5/2/2013, the employees required to use portable fire extinguishers in the event of a fire had not received training.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-11-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(i): The employer did not ensure that each powered industrial truck operator is competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluation specified in this paragraph (l):    On and before 5/3/2013, the forklift operator employees had not received training with an evaluation.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(q)(7): Industrial trucks were not examined before being placed in service:  On and before 5/2/2013, the employer had three forklifts that were not inspected before use.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-12-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4900.00 · Current $2940.00 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 sparks:     On and before 5/2/2013, the following machinery was not properly safeguarded.     a. The Johnson vertical bandsaw had 4 inches of the sawblade under the work table that was not guarded.   b. The Kalamazoo horizontal bandsaw had 4 inches and 11 inches of unused portions of sawblade that was not guarded.   c. The Supermax, Bridgeport and Tri-star drill press rotating chucks were not gaurded.   d. The Warner/Swasey,Tonna and Hardinge horizontal boring mills were not guarded at the rotating chucks.   e. The Clausing lathe was not guarded at the rotating chuck.   f. The south extrusion line had a Gatto puller with rotating wheels had a guard that was missing.   g. The south extrusion line Matthew ink roller rotating wheels were not guarded.    h. There were five Continental grooving machines that were not guarded at the rotating grooving blade and rollers.   i. On 4/1/2013, the #12 Continental grooving machine grooving blade drive shaft end had a guard that was missing.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.215(a)(4): Work rest(s) on grinding machinery were not adjusted closely to the wheel with a maximum opening of one eighth inch:    On 5/2/2013, there was a Baldor and an additional unidentifiable abrasive wheel pedestal grinder with work rest openings of one half inch.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9): The distance between the abrasive wheel periphery(s) and the adjustable tongue or the end of the safety guard peripheral member at the top exceeded one fourth inch:  On 5/2/2013, the Baldor abrasive wheel pedestal grinder periphery guards were missing with openings at 1/2 inch and 2 inches.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2100.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.242(b): Compressed air used for cleaning purposes was not reduced to less than 30 p.s.i.:    On 5/2/2013, the compressed airline used for cleaning at the Supermax drill press had air pressure of 90 psi.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met:    On and before 5/2/2013, the employer did not have a hazard communication program. Employees work with metal working fluids, hydraulic oil and with polpropylene homopolymer pellets with zinc sulfide at their heated extrusion lines and plastic injection molding machine.

Issued

2013-09-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-10-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $700.00 · Current $420.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.29(a): The employer did not use an OSHA 300, 301 and 300A Form or equivalent:    On and before 5/2/2013, an employee sustained a recordable injury on 4/1/13 and the employer did not use OSHA 300, 301 and 300A forms.