OSHA Inspection: ATLANTA HARDWOOD CORPORATION

Issued

May 14, 2018

Abate by

Jun 8, 2018

Penalty

Initial $4,664 · Current $2,798 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.37(a)(3): Exit route(s) were not kept free and unobstructed:      a. 91 Appalachian Trail Drive, Cleveland, GA (Shop Area) - Employees were exposed to entrapment hazard.  One of the designated marked, and identified emergency exit door in the shop area was blocked with a large heavy bin where the employees are discarding their excess wood materials.  The large bin was placed directly in front of the emergency exit door, on or about January 31, 2018.

Issued

May 14, 2018

Abate by

Jun 8, 2018

Penalty

Initial $4,664 · Current $2,798 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):   a.  91 Appalachian Trail Drive, Cleveland, GA - Maintenance employees were exposed to sudden energization or start-up of multi-energy source equipment/machinery such as, the moulder machines. The company's written lockout/tagout specific procedures were found with the following deficiencies:   The energy control procedures did not include the set-up procedures for the moulder machines when performing tool adjustment such as, changing out the head/blade on the moulders as part of normal operation, on or about January 31, 2018.

Issued

May 14, 2018

Abate by

Jun 8, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(i):The employer shall conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirements of this standard are being followed:        a. Appalachian Trail Drive, Cleveland, GA - The employer developed specific written lockout/tagout procedures; however the employer has not performed a periodic inspection and/or annual inspection of the procedures to verify if any changes had been made to the lockout/tagout procedures, on or about January 31, 2018.

Issued

May 14, 2018

Penalty

Initial $12,805 · Current $7,683 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 hazard:   a.  91 Appalachian Trail Drive, Cleveland, GA (Moulder Machine #4) - The employees were exposed to struck-by hazard. The machine operator and/or laborer employee were working in close proximity to the moulder machine #4, while the 4X10 metal cover which serves as a guard, was missing and/or removed from the top section of the head/cutter blade partially exposing the rotating blade, on or about January 29, 2018.