OSHA Inspection: SUNBELT RENTALS, OIL AND GAS DIVISION

Issued

2015-06-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-07-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5000.00 · Current $4000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs 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) At the establishment employees performed maintenance and repair of oil and gas equipment, to include, but not limited to generators, light towers, rough terrain fork lift trucks, manlifts, cooling trailers, and high pressure hot water washers both at the establishment's work shop and at customers' oil and gas sites in the field. The establishment had not developed and implemented an energy control program to protect employees.

Issued

2015-06-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-07-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3000.00 · Current $1500.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(ii): Prior to permitting an employee to operate a powered industrial truck (except for training purposes), the employer shall ensure that each operator has successfully completed the training required by this paragraph (l), except as permitted by paragraph (l)(5).    a) At the establishment, employees who operated the company's Komatsu fork lift truck had not received the training required by 29 CFR 1910.178(l).

Issued

2015-06-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-07-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5000.00 · Current $2500.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1): Guarding. Pulleys, any parts of which are seven (7) feet or less from the floor or working platform, shall be guarded in accordance with the standards specified in paragraphs (m) and (o) of this section. Pulleys serving as balance wheels (e.g., punch presses) on which the point of contact between belt and pulley is more than six feet six inches (6 ft. 6 in.) from the floor or platform may be guarded with a disk covering the spokes.    a) At the establishment, the Karcher Shark Power Washer had unguarded pulleys less than three (3) feet from the floor exposing employees to caught-by and amputation hazards.

Issued

2015-06-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-07-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(e)(1)(i): Where both runs of horizontal belts are seven (7) feet or less from the floor level, the guard shall extend to at least fifteen (15) inches above the belt or to a standard height, except that where both runs of a horizontal belt are 42 inches or less from the floor, the belt shall be fully enclosed in accordance with paragraphs (m) and (o) of this section.    a) At the establishment, the Karcher Shark Power Washer had unguarded belts less than three (3) feet from the floor exposing employees to caught-by and amputation hazards.