OSHA Inspection: NAZARETH MACHINE WORKS INC

Issued

Dec 6, 2013

Abate by

Dec 26, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 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)  Throughout Facility - A program developed with specific procedures was not established for employees performing maintenance on various energized machines, such as horizonal boring machines, on or about 10/22/13.

Issued

Dec 6, 2013

Abate by

Dec 26, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 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:  (a)  Throughout Facility - Employees were not educated on fire or emergency procedures as no evacuation program had been developed to specify their actions in the event of an emergency, on or about 10/22/13.

Issued

Dec 6, 2013

Abate by

Dec 26, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 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):  a)  Throughout Facility - Employees are using powered industrial trucks in the facility and have not been trained in the safe operation of the available equipment, on or about 10/22/13.

Issued

Dec 6, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 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:    (a)  Shop Area - the Daewoo Mechalropia H100 was not effectively guarded to prevent employees being struck by flying chips during visual examinations of the running machine, on or about 10/22/13.