OSHA Inspection: ZENGER PARTNERS, LLC

Issued

2018-03-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2018-04-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3141.00 · Current $750.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure 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:    a) On or about 03/23/18 throughout the print shop; employees were engaged in service and maintenance of printing equipment and associated machine, such as but not limited to, repairing stitcher heads, replacing cutter blades, greasing and lubrication, replacing drive belts, rollers and were exposed to caught between hazards when the employer did not have an energy control program which included energy control procedures and periodic inspections.      ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2018-03-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2018-04-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section;   a) On or about 03/23/18 throughout the print shop; employees engaged in service and maintenance of printing equipment and associated machine, such as but not limited to, repairing stitcher heads, replacing cutter blades, greasing and lubrication, replacing drive belts, rollers and were exposed to caught between hazards when the employer allowed the use of emergency stop buttons and interlocks instead of requiring the use of an energy control procedure which included preventing the release of hazardous energy by operating all energy isolating devices and the use of lock out or tag out devices for control.     ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2018-03-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2513.00 · Current $750.00 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, of the stitcher/cutter;     a) On or about 03/22/18 in the print shop; employees were exposed to a caught between hazard created by the two stitching heads when the guard/cover for the stitching area on the stitcher machine was missing.      b) On or about 03/22/18 in the print shop; employees were exposed to a struck by hazard, the falling cover of the cutter area, when the raised cover was prevented from falling by inserting a piece of aluminum pipe instead of the designed raised cover protection mechanism.        NO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED