OSHA Inspection: ALSTOM TRANSPORTATION USA INC.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $16550.00 · Current $16550.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.332(b)(1): Employees were not trained in and familiar with the safety-related work practices required by 1910.331 through 1910.335 that pertained to their respective job assignments:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a: The employer did not train employees on safety-related practices to include but not limited to the potential for re-energization of circuits while working on electrical panels at crossover sections of a rail link system.  Employees were exposed to electrocution hazards while replacing blown fuses in a rail-linked electrical panel during train moving operations.    Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.332(b)(3)(i): Qualified persons were not, at a minimum, trained in and familiar with the skills and techniques necessary to distinguish exposed live parts from other parts of electric equipment:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a: The employer did not train the employees to have the skills and techniques to identify parts that could become energized when trains moved through the crossover section of the rail.  Employees were exposed to electrocution hazards while replacing blown fuses in a rail-linked electrical panel after the panel became re-energized when a disabled train was towed through a crossover section of the rail.  Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $16550.00 · Current $16550.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.333(a)(1):  Live parts to which an employee may be exposed shall be deenergized before the employee works on or near them, unless the employer can demonstrate that deenergizing introduces additional or increased hazards or is infeasible due to equipment design or operational limitations. Live parts that operate at less than 50 volts to ground need not be deenergized if there will be no increased exposure to electrical burns or to explosion due to electric arcs:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a:   Employees were exposed to energized electrical parts as fuses were being replaced.   An employee was exposed to energized electrical parts while replacing fuses on a rail-linked electrical panel when a train was towed through the crossover, creating a power bridge between the energized airside and the de-energized landside.   Violation occurred on February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $16550.00 · Current $16550.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.333(b)(2)(ii)(A): Safe procedures for deenergizing circuits and equipment were not determined before circuits and equipment were deenergized:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a:  The employer failed to develop and implement procedures for de-energizing equipment at the crossover section of the train rail-link system. Employees were exposed to electrocution hazards while replacing fuses in an electrical panel as a train was towed through the crossover, which caused an electrical backfeed into the panel.  Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.333(b)(2)(ii)(D): Stored non-electrical energy in devices that could reenergize electric circuit parts shall be blocked or relieved to the extent that the circuit parts could not be accidentally energized by the device:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a: The employer did not develop and implement procedures to ensure electrical circuit parts did not become energized by non-electrical energy caused by rail cars moving through the rail crossover devices. Employees were exposed to electrocution hazards while replacing fuses in an electrical panel as a train was towed through the crossover, which created an electrical backfeed into the panel.  Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.333(b)(2)(iv)(B): The test of the circuit elements and electrical parts of equipment did not determine if any energized condition existed as a result of inadvertently induced voltage or unrelated voltage backfeed:  Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a: The employer failed ensure procedures were developed to verify electrical parts could not become energized from voltage backfeed caused by rail cars moving through the rail crossover. Employees were exposed to electrocution hazards while replacing fuses in an electrical panel after such panel became re-energized as a train was towed through the crossover.  Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.

Issued

2025-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-10-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $16550.00 · Current $16550.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.335(a)(1)(i): Employees working in areas where there were potential electrical hazards were not using electrical protective equipment that was appropriate for the specific parts of the body to be protected and for the work to be performed:   Location: 60 Earhart Drive. Newark, NJ 07114 - Rail Link SOP 11-12  a: The employer failed to ensure employees were using the electrical personal protective equipment they were provided with when testing and working on electrical panels.  Employees were not wearing and using electrical safety insulated gloves while replacing fuses in an electrical panel.  Violation occurred on or about February 25, 2025.