OSHA Inspection: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Issued

Mar 7, 2016

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · 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:  Olin Hall Machine Shop, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts; Prior to OSHA inspection, 1124410, which was opened on February 11, 2016, the employer did not have a lockout program that included machine specific energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections for all authorized personnel locking out equipment in the Olin Hall Machine Shop.

Issued

Mar 7, 2016

Abate by

Mar 17, 2016

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(f)(2)(i): When outside servicing personnel were engaged in activities in a facility, the onsite employer and the outside employer did not inform each other of their respective lockout or tagout procedures:   Olin Hall Machine Shop, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts; The employer  did not inform contractors on their respective lockout procedures when contractors were hired to work on the milling machine and/or large lathe in the Olin Hall Machine Shop.