OSHA Inspection: GALAXY BOWLING CENTER, L.P.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $1,680 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 struck-by and impalement hazards:    On and before March 6, 2015, above bowling lanes 27 through 40, employees were exposed to plastic shrapnel pieces from exploding PVC piping.  Employees worked in close proximity to a one (1) inch schedule 40 PVC piping system which had been installed to transport compressed air from the compressor to the bowling lane bumpers.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $2,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.23(c)(3): Regardless of height, open-sided floors, walkways, platforms, or runways above or adjacent to dangerous equipment, pickling or galvanizing tanks, degreasing units, and similar hazards were not guarded with a standard railing and toe board:    On or before March 6, 2015, employees were exposed to falls into the forty (40) pin setting machine equipment while working on platforms located five (5) feet above the moving pin setting equipment that were not protected with rails and toe boards.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.24(b): Fixed stairs were not provided were access to elevations was daily or at each shift for such purposes as gauging, inspection, regular maintenance, etc., where such work may expose employee(s) to acids, caustics, gases, or other harmful substances, or for which purposes the carrying of tools or equipment by hand is normally required:    On and before March 6, 2015, located in the rear of the bowling alley, employees accessing bowling machines were exposed to slips and falls when using inadequate fixed stairs.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.37(a)(3): Exit route(s) were not kept free and unobstructed:    On March 6, 2015, and times prior thereto, , the employer failed to keep emergency exit doors free from obstructions at the following locations:          a)  the East emergency exit door, and      b)  the West emergency exit door.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $3,500 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:    On and before March 6, 2015, the employer did not establish an energy control program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that prior to an employee performing servicing such as but not limited to retrieving bowling balls or resetting pins for the forty (40) pin setting machines to protect employees exposed to moving and energized parts.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $3,700 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:    On and before March 6, 2015, located in the rear of the bowling alley for each of the forty (40) bowling lanes, employees walked and worked on the floor at the rear of the bowling lanes and were exposed to rotating parts and flying bowling pins from the unguarded entrance (elevator) of each machine.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $3,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(c)(2)(i): All exposed part(s) of horizontal shafting seven (7) feet or less from floor or working platform were not protected by stationary casing(s) enclosing shafting completely or by trough(s) enclosing sides and top or sides and bottom of shafting:    On and before March 6, 2015, on all forty (40) lanes at this location, the employer did not assure employees were protected from the hazard of being caught-in rotating parts.  An employee resetting the re-spot cell on the pin setting machine for lane thirty (30) was exposed to inadequately guarded horizontal metal shafts located three (3) feet ten (10) inches from the floor.  The opening is three (3) feet and the shaft is located sixteen (16) inches behind the opening that employees use to access the pin setting machine.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1): Pulley(s) with part(s) seven feet or less from the floor or work platform were not guarded in accordance with the requirements specified in 29 CFR 1910.219(m) and (o):      On and before March 6, 2015, for each of the forty (40) bowing lanes located at the rear of the bowling alley, employees resetting pins were exposed to unguarded pulleys driving the ball return mechanisms for the pin setting machines.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(e)(1)(i): Horizontal belts which had both runs seven (7) feet or less from the floor level were not guarded with a guard that extended to at least fifteen inches above the belt:  On or before March 6, 2015, for each of the forty (40) lanes at this location, employees were exposed to unguarded horizontal belts on pin setting machines that were located fifty-six (56) inches above the floor.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(2)(i)(D): Except as elsewhere required or permitted by this standard, live parts of electric equipment operating at 50 volts or more were not guarded against accidental contact by use of approved cabinets or other forms of approved enclosures or by elevation of 2.44 m (8.0 ft.) or more above the floor or other working surface:    On March 6, 2015, and times prior thereto, on lane twenty-three (23), employees worked in close proximity to an pin setter control board where the energized main conductor had been cut and wrapped with clear plastic tape exposing employees to electrical hazards.

Issued

Sep 2, 2015

Abate by

Sep 24, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(iii): Flexible cords and cables were not connected to devices and fittings so that strain relief was provided that would prevent pull from being directly transmitted to joints or terminal screws:    On March 6, 2015,  at a bowling center lane, employees were using an air compressor and the electrical cord was not provided strain relief.