OSHA Inspection: SOUTHERN BLEACHER HOLDINGS, INC.

Issued

2020-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-09-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8675.00 · Current $5205.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, 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.    At facility located at 801 5th St., Graham, Texas; employees change out punches in the duplicator machine without procedures to control the energy to prevent the machine to activate accidentally while inside the machine.  The employees were exposed to caught-in hazards.