OSHA Inspection: BACKER HOTWATT, INC.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $8,525 · Current $4,000 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) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, a hazardous energy control program as not been established to protect employees from hazards associated with servicing and maintaining machines and equipment within the facility.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $8,525 · Current $4,000 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, flying chips and sparks:    (a) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, one or methods of machine safeguarding was not employed to protect employees from the rotating arbors of the wire twisting machines.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii): Point(s) of operation of machinery were not guarded to prevent employee(s) from having any part of their body in the danger zone(s) during operating cycle(s):   (a) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:  On or about 06/27/2019, the area of the capping machine where the ram contacts the cap was not guarded to prevent employees from having any part of their body in the danger zone during the machine's operating cycle.  (b) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:  On or about 08/19/2019, the guard intended to prevent employees from having their hand/fingers in the danger zone during the capping machine's operating cycle was purposefully bypassed by an employee resulting in their exposure to a hazard from the machine's point of operation.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $6,818 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.215(a)(4): Grinding machinery was not used with work rest(s) to support offhand grinding work:    (a) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, the Enco Model 163-4650(SB-150) bench grinder did not have a tool rest to support offhand grinding work.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9): The distance between the abrasive wheel periphery(s) and the adjustable tongue or the end of the safety guard peripheral member at the top exceeded one fourth inch:    (a) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, bench and pedestal grinders did not have adjustable tongue or other equivalent safety guards.    (b) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, where present, the adjustable tongue or other equivalent safety guards of bench and pedestal grinders were not adjusted to maintain a maximum opening of 1/4" between the periphery of the wheel and the end of the guards.

Issued

Sep 23, 2019

Abate by

Oct 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,115 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(2)(i): Except as elsewhere required or permitted by Subpart S of Part 1910, live parts of electric equipment operating  at 50 volts or more were not guarded against accidental contact by use of approved cabinets or other forms of approved enclosures or by any of the means identified in paragraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) of 29 CFR 1910.303(g)(2)(i):    (a) Location - 16A Electronics Avenue, Danvers, MA:    On or about 08/19/2019, splices made to the leads of electric motors were not installed in a suitable enclosure.