OSHA Inspection: HOUSE OF CHEATHAM, INC.

Issued

2017-05-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5387.00 · Current $4000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i): The employer did not ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that was 4 feet (1.2 m) or more above a lower level was protected from falling by one or more of the following:  Guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:     a.  1550 Roadhaven Drive, Stone Mountain, GA (Over the Maintenance Shop) - Maintenance Employees were exposed to fall hazard.  The employees are required to access the upper level mezzanine storage area to retrieved items pertaining to the shop area such as, but not limited to boxes and other excess shop materials.  The mezzanine area was not equipped with the standard guardrails along the open-sides of the storage area, exposing employees to a fall of 11' to lower level, on or about 04/19/17.

Issued

2017-05-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-06-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5387.00 · Current $4000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii): Procedures did not clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)(A), (c)(4)(ii)(B), (c)(4)(ii)(C) and (c)(4)(ii)(D):     29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii): Procedures did not clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)(A), (c)(4)(ii)(B), (c)(4)(ii)(C) and (c)(4)(ii)(D):     1550 Roadhaven Drive, Stone Mountain, GA - On or about 04/19/17,  Employees were exposed to sudden energization or start-up of multi-energy source equipment/machinery such as, but not limited to line 1 - 11 machineries.  The company's written lockout/tagout specific procedures were found with the following deficiencies:          a.  The energy control procedures did not specifically outline the steps for placement of              locks onto the multi-energy source disconnect apparatus.          b. The energy control procedures did not specifically outline the steps for the removal of             locks and restoring the equipment back to service.           c.  Specific requirements for testing the machine or equipment to determine and verify              the effectiveness of lockout devices, tagout devices and other energy control             measures were not included in the specific procedures.

Issued

2017-05-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-06-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(i): The employer did not conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirement of this standard were being followed:   a. 1550 Roadhaven Drive, Stone Mountain, GA - Employees were exposed to hazard of sudden energization of moving parts of equipment.  Employees (maintenance) perform servicing and maintenance on various machinery and equipment which has multi-energy source, such as electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic. An internal audit was not performed to ensure de-energization procedures were being properly implemented, on or about 04/19/17.