OSHA Inspection: TIMBER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $11292.00 · Current $6775.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:  (a) Rex planing and Pendu area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, energy control procedures were not developed, documented and utilized to control hazardous energy on the Rex planer and related Pendu equipment (conveyors, saws, and scissors table) before employees performed servicing and/or maintenance tasks of cleaning and clearing jammed boards.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4839.00 · Current $2903.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(d)(4)(i): Lockout or tagout devices were not affixed to each energy isolating device by authorized employees:  (a) Throughout stacker area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, lockout locks were not affixed to energy isolating devices on the stacker machine during servicing and/or maintenance activities of cleaning, adjusting and setting up.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4839.00 · Current $2903.00 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, flying chips and sparks:  (a) Stacker area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, the stacker machine was not adequately guarded on the infeed side and near a walkway on the back side of the stacker.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-06-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $11292.00 · Current $6775.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(n)(1): Metal guard(s) covering the cutting head(s), and saw(s) if used, were not provided on planing machines:  (a) Rex planing area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, cutting heads were not guarded/covered on the sides of a Rex brand planing machine.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-06-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(n)(3): Hood(s) or suitable guard(s) were not provided to prevent the hands of the operator from coming in contact with the in running rolls of feed rolls on planing machines:  (a) Rex planing area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, adequate guarding was not provided to prevent contact with in running feed rolls on a Rex brand planing machine.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(n)(4): Surfacers or planers used in thicknessing multiple pieces of material simultaneously were not provided with sectional infeed rolls having sufficient yield in the construction of the sections to provide feeding contact pressure on the stock, over the permissible range of variation in stock thickness specified or for which the machine is designed. In lieu of such yielding sectional rolls, suitable section kickback finger devices were not provided at the infeed end:  (a) Rex planing area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, sectional infeed rolls to provide contact pressure on stock material with variations in thickness or sectional kickback finger devices were not provided on the infeed end of a Rex brand planing machine used to plane the thickness of multiple pieces of material (laminated beams) at the same time.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-06-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $11292.00 · Current $6775.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3):  Sprocket wheels and chains which were seven (7) feet or less above floors or platforms were not enclosed: ( Reference: 29 CFR 1910. 213(a)(9) )  (a) Crowder area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, in-going nip-points between chains and sprockets on the inclined crowder infeed conveyor were not guarded.  (b) Pendu scissors table area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, in-going nip-points between chains and sprockets on the Pendu conveyors were not guarded along the front or back sides.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-06-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1613.00 · Current $968.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.40(a):  The employer did not provide an authorized government representative the records within the four business hours:  (a) On or about January 17, 2024, the employer failed to provide their 2023 OSHA Form 300 within four hours of request.

Issued

2024-05-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(i): The employer did not conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirements of this standard were being followed:  (a) Throughout the production area; On or about January 17, 2024, and dates prior, written energy isolation (LOTO) procedures were not evaluated annually for equipment including, but not limited to the finger jointer table, finger joint crowder, RF tunnel, Newman Machine Company planer, stacker, and inter-related conveyances.