OSHA Inspection: GENTRY PRINTING COMPANY LLC

Issued

Aug 11, 2014

Abate by

Sep 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 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:    a) For the Gentry Printers facility as observed on or about 06/17/2014, employees performed maintenance on equipment such as, but not limited to, printing presses, stitcher, and folders. Maintenance included replacing of rollers, greasing machines, and cleaning filters. Hazardous energy existed in the form of 240VAC/480VAC and mechanical moving parts. Lockout of energy sources was not accomplished prior to performing maintenance.

Issued

Aug 11, 2014

Abate by

Sep 5, 2014

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) For the Gentry Printing Company facility as observed on or about 06/17/2014, employees operated a Komatsu forklift to load and unload trucks.

Issued

Aug 11, 2014

Abate by

Sep 12, 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:    For the Gentry Printers facility as observed on or about 06/17/2014 and 07/11/2014, employees were exposed to ingoing nip points from unguarded rollers:    a) On the Komori Lithrone L540 press    b) On the Polly 466 Press

Issued

Aug 11, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $850 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.:    a) For the Gentry Printers facility as observed on or about 06/17/2014, employees in the press room used compressed air for cleaning purposes at a dead front pressure of 80 p.s.i.