OSHA Inspection: DUNN'S FISH FARMS OF ARKANSAS, INC.

Issued

2013-11-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2975.00 · Current $1500.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to electrical shock hazards:       On or about 7/10/2013, hatchery building, employees worked at or near fish vats where the follow conditions existed which exposes employees to electric shock hazards:                 a.  Hatchery building, ground-fault circuit-interrupter protection was not tested at least monthly for electrical receptacles over or within 10 feet of fish vats.                b.  Hatchery building, electrical receptacles in wet locations such as over fish vats were not provided with equipment enclosures that were weatherproof.            c.  Hatchery building, light fixtures over fish vats did not minimize the entrance of foreign matter, were not protected by a physical guard, were not watertight, and/or were not on ground-fault circuit-interrupter protected circuits.               d.  Hatchery building, old hatchery lower end east and middle hatchery, circuit breaker panels were not marked for what each circuit breaker controlled.            e.  Old hatchery lower end west, at the west wall a circuit breaker panel was not dead front.            f.  Old hatchery lower end east, at the north wall, a light switch box lacked a faceplate.            g.  Old hatchery lower end east at fish vat #12, a duplex receptacle box was missing its faceplate.             h.  Old hatchery lower end east in front of and between fish vat #13 and fish vat #12, a duplex receptacle was missing its faceplate.             i.  Old hatchery loading bay, at the north wall two receptacle boxes lacked faceplates.            j.  Middle hatchery, south wall, an electrical box with energized wires did not have a cover.  The electrical box was mounted to the east side of the circuit breaker panel.             k.  Back hatchery, at the north wall, an electrical box with an energized wire did not have a cover.            l.  Old hatchery lower end east, at the north wall, the circuit breaker panel had open knock outs at the east side of the panel box that were not covered.            m.  Back hatchery, at the north wall, a Challenger circuit breaker box had at least 5 openings where there were no circuit breakers and the openings were not covered.             n.  Back hatchery, at the north wall, a Sylvannia circuit breaker box had at least 2 openings where there were no circuit breakers and the openings were not covered.             o.  Back hatchery, near the north wall, an orange flexible cord ran through a drop ceiling hole.             p.  Back hatchery, an orange flexible cord was spliced to a black flexible cord with black electrical tape and the splice did not provide outer sheaths properties of the cords.                q.  Middle hatchery, a yellow extension cord at the south wall had black electrical tape over a damaged area of the cord and the female cord plug had broken prong housings.            r.  Old hatchery, loading bay, north wall, exposed NM electrical cables were not protected from damage where they ran alongside metal vertical framing of the building to power two receptacles.            s.  Old hatchery, loading bay, exposed NM electrical cable was not protected from damage where it hung vertically unsupported over and into an unused vat.            t.  Old hatchery, lower end east, in front of fish vats 12, exposed NM cables were not protected from damage.  The NM cables ran parallel to a metal building frame to power two light switch boxes.            u.  Old hatchery, lower end east, in front of fish vat 14, exposed overhead hanging NM cable that contained a free end, was not protected from damage.            v.  Old hatchery, lower end west, in front of fish vats 5-7, exposed NM cable hung down below metal angle iron which supported it and was not protected from physical damage.             w.  Old hatchery, lower end east, exposed NM electrical cables were not properly secured within 8 inches of electrical boxes for duplex receptacles.            x.  Old hatchery, lower end east, exposed NM cable was not secured within 8 inches of two electrical boxes for two light switches.             y.  Old hatchery, loading bay, north wall, exposed NM electrical cables were not properly secured within 8 inches of the two electrical boxes for receptacles.