OSHA Inspection: QUARRY INDUSTRIES, INC

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,781 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to crushing hazards from stone slabs:    Location: Production Floor    On May 07, 2019, an employee was trying to remove the clamp from a marble slab being moved by a forklift. The slab fell on him and he was fatally injured.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $1,705 · Current $853 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.135(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee wear a protective helmet when working in areas where there is a potential for injury to the head from falling objects:    Location: Production floor / Yard area    Employees were exposed to struck by hazards where stone slabs are lifted by forklifts and overhead crane and hard hats were not worn.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $1,421 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:    Location:  Production floor    Employees are exposed to electrical shock hazards and crushing hazards while performing maintenance and repairing the Yukon II Bridge Saw, Fastback Polisher and Hydroclear equipment, where a lock out tag out program that included energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections was not established or implemented.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $1,421 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance was not being conducted at least once every three years:    Location: Production floor / Yard area    Employees were exposed to struck by hazards where forklift operators were not evaluated in operations of the forklift and hazards associated with moving stone slabs.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $1,421 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(m)(2): Employee(s) stood under or passed under the elevated portion of a powered industrial truck.    Location:  Production Floor    Employees were exposed to struck by hazards where employees walked under a boom mounted on the forks of a powered industrial truck that was used to move stone slabs.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $1,989 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.179(g)(2)(i): Electrical equipment was not so located or enclosed that live parts would not be exposed to accidental contact under normal operating conditions:    Location: Production Floor    Employees were exposed to electrical shock hazards where the exposed conductors for the overhead crane mounted above the runway beam were not protected from accidental contact.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Abate by

Feb 3, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $1,421 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.179(j)(3): A complete periodic inspection of crane(s) had not been conducted in the past 12 months:    Location: Production floor    The overhead crane, installed on December 2017 had not had an annual inspection.

Issued

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(a)(4): Modifications and additions which affect capacity and safe operation of powered industrial truck were performed by the employer without the manufacturer's prior written approval:  Location: Doosan Daewoo Forklift  The AARDVOLF attachment with an Abaco Lifter attached to the end, was being used on the forks of the  Doosan Daewoo forklift to move stone slabs. No written approval from the forklift manufacturer was obtained by the employer.