OSHA Inspection: HOOKED & TAGGED, INC.

Issued

2025-05-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.25(b)(1): General requirements. The employer must ensure handrails, stair rail systems, and guardrail systems are provided in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.28.    On or about April 7, 2025, at an establishment located at 107 East Wall Street in Eagle River, Wisconsin; the employer did not ensure that the handrail installed on a 39-inch-wide, standard staircase going from the ground level to the basement was installed in accordance with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.28.

Issued

2025-05-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i): Unprotected sides and edges. Except as provided elsewhere in this section, the employer must ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet (1.2 m) or more above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of the following: (A) Guardrail systems; (B) Safety net systems; or (C) Personal fall protections systems, such as personal fall arrest, travel restraint, or positioning systems:  On or about March 3, 2025, to March 7, 2025, at an establishment located at 100 East Wall Street in Eagle River, Wisconsin, in the Distribution Center above the changing rooms; the employer did not ensure that employees organizing and stocking clothing items were protected from falling 8 feet 8 inches off the unprotected edge of the walking/working surface to the concrete floor below.

Issued

2025-05-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.30(b)(1): Equipment hazards. The employer must train each employee on or before May 17, 2017 in the proper care, inspection, storage, and use of equipment covered by this subpart before an employee uses the equipment.   On or about April 7, 2025, at an establishment located at 100 East Wall Street in Eagle River, Wisconsin, in the Distribution Center; the employer did not train each employee in the proper care, inspection, storage, and use of rolling platform A-frame ladders prior to employees using the equipment, exposing them to potential fall hazards.

Issued

2025-05-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.132(a): Application. Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact.   On or about April 7, 2025, at an establishment located at 100 & 107 East Wall Street in Eagle River, Wisconsin; the employer did not provide and require employees to use personal protective equipment for the eyes and hands to prevent physical contact with falling boxes on their faces and lacerations to their hands while using box cutters.

Issued

2025-05-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1): The employer shall assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). If such hazards are present, or likely to be present, the employer shall: (i) Select, and have each affected employee use, the types of PPE that will protect the affected employee from the hazards identified in the hazard assessment; (ii) Communicate selection decisions to each affected employee; and, (iii) Select PPE that properly fits each affected employee.  On or about April 7, 2025, at an establishment located at 100 & 107 East Wall Street in Eagle River, Wisconsin; the employer did not assess the workplace to determine if laceration and struck-by hazards were present, or likely to be present, which necessitated the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) when employees were using box cutter knives and taking boxes of clothing down over their heads while on platform stepladder.