OSHA Inspection: COTTAGE INVESTORS OF CANTON LLC

Issued

Nov 25, 2014

Abate by

Dec 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $4,200 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:     The employer does not establish energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performing any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of energy could occur and cause injury, the machine and equipment is isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.  This violation occurred on or about June 2, 2014, near Blue Heron Pond located at 2102 North Trade Days Boulevard in Canton, Texas 75103, where an employee who was working on a recirculation pump that was not isolated from energy sources and rendered inoperative was electrocuted.  The employer had not established a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure control of hazardous energy.

Issued

Nov 25, 2014

Abate by

Dec 4, 2014

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(f)(1): Each disconnecting means required by Subpart S of Part 1910 for motors and appliances was not legibly marked to indicate its purpose, nor located and arranged so the purpose was evident:    The employer does not legibly mark each disconnecting means for motors to indicate its purpose, nor locate and arrange them so the purpose is evident.  This violation occurred on or about June 2, 2014, at the pump house near Blue Heron Pond located at 2102 North Trade Days Boulevard in Canton, Texas 75103, where the circuit breaker for a recirculation pump motor was not legibly marked nor located and arranged so the purpose was evident.

Issued

Nov 25, 2014

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a): An oral report of a death of any employee from a work-related incident or the inpatient hospitalization of three or more employees as a result of a work-related incident was not made within eight (8) hours after the occurrence to the nearest Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or to the OSHA toll-free central telephone number (1-800-321-OSHA):       The employer did not make an oral report to OSHA within eight hours after the death of an employee from a work-related incident that occurred on June 2, 2014 near Blue Heron Pond located at 2102 North Trade Days Boulevard, Canton, Texas 75103.