OSHA Inspection: MIDWEST MANUFACTURING

Issued

Sep 17, 2013

Abate by

Dec 2, 2013

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $4,900 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): 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 from displaced lumber:    a)  Midwest Manufacturing on or about July 01, 2013, at the address of 14314 Co. Rd. 15 Holiday City, OH: The employer failed to implement effective lumber loading/feeding procedures and/or provide physical guarding that would prevent the displacement of individual boards from vendor bunks entering the Treatment Plant. Employees who load/feed stacks of lumber on the chain conveyor input of the Treatment Plant were exposed to struck-by hazards after de-banding the lumber stacks landed on the in-feed conveyor.      One feasible means of abatement to is to install physical guards at the input end of the chain conveyor. After the banded material has been landed and physical guards moved into position, employees would be protected from accidental displacement and ultimately struck-by hazards while de-banding the material. Additionally the employer may develop and enforce specific procedures to where the stacks remain banded/secured until the point in the process where other means to secure the bunks/stacks can be utilized.