OSHA Inspection: GREAT LAKES RENEWABLE ENERGY, INC.

Issued

May 6, 2019

Abate by

Oct 23, 2019

Penalty

Initial $4,546 · Current $3,185 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:    (a) Throughout the facility; The employer did not establish a program consisting of documented energy control procedures, employee training, and periodic inspections for equipment such as, but not limited to, the mills, rotary dryer, wood hog, conveyors, etc.

Issued

May 6, 2019

Abate by

Jun 25, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:  (a) Throughout the facility; Appendix D information was not provided to employees who utilized filtering facepiece respirators (dust masks) for cleaning and various maintenance tasks.

Issued

May 6, 2019

Abate by

Jun 25, 2019

Penalty

Initial $425 · Current $295 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii): Employee training did not include the physical, health, simple asphyxiation, combustible dust, and pyrophoric gas hazards, as well as hazards not otherwise classified, of the chemicals in the work area:    (a) Throughout the facility; Employee hazard communication training did not include the hazards of combustible wood dust.