OSHA Inspection: NEXANS ENERGY USA INC.

Issued

Oct 15, 2015

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:    a)  W29 Cable Spooler -On or before August 20, 2015, the employer had not developed and documented procedures for the control of potentially hazardous energy for the W29 Cable Spooler.  This exposed employees to the possibility of amputation injuries should the unit become inadvertently energized from either electrical or pneumatic inputs when it was considered to be locked-out but was in actuality not locked-out due to the lack of specific procedures to ensure complete lock-out of this unit.

Issued

Oct 15, 2015

Abate by

Oct 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $2,900 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)  W-29 Spooler Area - On or before August 20, 2015 an ingoing nip point between a cable and rollers was being operated unguarded exposing an employee to being injured by having the employee's fingertip amputated by the ingoing nip point.