OSHA News for July 2019
We survived the record heat this month. Most companies were prepared and gave employees extra breaks and ice for water and cooling. Many workers wore attachments that kept the heat off the face and neck.
Lockout continues to be the hardest program for large companies to comply with. Too many are missing annual audits, authorized person training, and clear written procedures for a machine.
Many sling manufacturers are not allowing a single choker sling to lift loads where it can slip or slide. Check the new labels on rigging.
I saw the 3M Earfit demonstration that calculates a quantitative analysis of an ear plugs. The user puts in the plugs and this will measure how effective the user is hearing with the plugs in. Many ised can get NRR actual rating of over 30 dbA.
This months ppt is on Brewery Safety. As the industry grows, there is a need for many areas of safety to be addressed. I am a fan of Brewery tours and always interested in seeing more. Cheers to a safer August.
John
OSHA News.
1) Ken Atha retired in July. He was the Regional Administrator in Region V for the last few years.
2) Ron McCann passed away July 29, 2019. He was Area Director for Cincinnati, Iowa, Chicago North, and Calumet City.
3) But to mount a successful defense against an OSHA citation using employees’ lack of compliance as the basis, employers need to make sure they’ve incorporated four distinct elements into their safety policies, said Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a partner in the Atlanta and Washington, D.C, offices of law firm Fisher Phillips and former assistant secretary of labor for OSHA under President George W. Bush.
https://www.constructiondive.
4) The Prairie State College OSHA day was successful. I got to see many old friends and over 100 companies attended the event. Active shooter was a popular topic.
5) Seven confined space deaths in the last two weeks. 4 were grain silos. 2 were in tanker trucks. 1 in the loading dock.
6) Safety professional: Shinnston, WV, city employee death highlights OSHA gap
7) OSHA made a follow-up inspection of the tire manufacturer because the agency never received abatement documents from a June 2017 inspection.
OSHA will always get abatement. They do not forget about serious violations. This so stupid to draw them back in for a tougher inspection.
8) Deaths at work hit a 10 year high. This is the wrong direction. OSHA says deaths went up 12.7%
9) Scalia picked for Labor Secretary.
10) The RRI letter is an investigative tool that OSHA uses to help OSHA understand the root cause of the incident and what the employer has done to correct it. Under the RRI program, the employer will receive an RRI request letter, which directs the employer to conduct an accident investigation, document the findings and corrective actions, post a copy of this letter where employees can review it, and submit the findings and corrective actions to OSHA. Good discussion of this aspect of OSHA investigation of an injury. https://oshadefensereport.com/
Other Major News Stories.
1) Death in Aurora for a teenage worker.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found the man, who has not yet been identified, pinned underneath a large woodpile. In what's believed to be an accident, investigators have preliminarily determined the man was removing the large wood panels from a railcar when they fell on him.
2) Workers hurt during collapse when pouring concrete in Texas.
3) Mother wants justice in death of her Stunt man son.
4) Chicago worker dies in a fall.
Misael Garcia, an employee of Drywall Pros Inc., was pulling an insulation hose into a building through a 4th-story window when he fell two stories onto a scaffolding deck, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
5) IL golf course worker death.
6) Home Depot forklift death. An official with the Cottleville Fire Protection District told News 4 the employee was operating forklift carrying drywall. When he got off the forklift to lift the drywall, the machinery fell on him. Usually, the worker is thrown from the lift and it falls on the driver. This appears to be it toppled on him.
7) In 2017, a worker in Texas died on the job every 16 hours. The death toll exceeded the number of murders in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin combined. 2016 and 2017 were among the deadliest years for workers in the state in two decades. Every year since 2009, Texas has registered more deaths on the job than any other state. Texas also had the highest worker death rate per capita in 2017 among the nation’s 10 most populous states.
8) Chemical burns in cement are hurting workers and DIY homeowners.
9) Chicago. Worker at car wash died from entanglement in equipment.
10) A worker died in an accident at an under-construction Amazon fulfillment center in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.
Oak Creek police released a statement saying the victim was "operating a piece of equipment on an upper floor" when they "drove the equipment out of an open window area."
Safety Training at Non-Profits
OSHA 510 CSC
OSHA 4 hour Free NIU Machine guarding
Fall protection TRMA
OSHA 511 NSC Itasca
NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu
CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org
TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association www.trma.org
NSC is National Safety Council http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/
I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series. I have been teaching many 10/30 hour class for private companies. I have taught 1575 people this year. I teach evenings, weekends, early mornings too. I teach in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana.
All presentations are put on slideshare.net for free downloading. I put this presentation at this link. https://www.slideshare.net/
OSHA Citations
KS 1368748.015 Best One Tire WICHITA 06/13/2019 $80,135.00 Guardrail systems, Energy control procedure (Lockout/Tagout), Training - safely servicing rim wheels, Refresher training / evaluation in operating powered industrial trucks, Machine guarding, Space around electric equipment, Written hazard communication, Safety data sheets, Hazardous chemical training
FATALITY: At 3:00 p.m. on December 24, 2018, an employee was removing a spare tire from under a van when it was struck by another car. The employee was crushed and killed.
ME 1366396.015 Shawn D. Purvis PORTLAND 06/11/2019 $1,116,476.00 Scaffolding near power lines, Fall hazard training, Fall protection, Ladders
FATALITY: At 11:53 a.m. on December 13, 2018, an employee was climbing down off of a roof onto a ladder jack scaffolding plank. The employee lost his footing and fell 20 feet to the ground. The employee was not wearing any fall protection. The employee was killed.
ME 1368053.015 Shawn D. Purvis OLD ORCHARD BEACH 06/11/2019 $676,250.00 Eye and face protection, Fall protection
OH 1373801.015 Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corporation NAPOLEON 06/11/2019 $106,080.00 Lockout/Tagout, Machine guarding
TX 1366399.015 Brown Excavation & Utilities, LLC SAN ANTONIO 06/10/2019 $49,440.00 Accident prevention - lock down / remove defective equipment, Walking-working surfaces, Excavation protective systems, Shield systems
TX 1368099.015 Southern Tire Mart, LLC FORT WORTH 06/10/2019 $341,195.00 General Duty (providing safe workplace), Storage and handling of liquefied petroleum gases - fire protection, Energy control procedure, Lockout/Tagout - training, Tire servicing equipment, Tire inflation, Powered industrial trucks, Hazardous chemical training, Exit route - signs, Record injury/illness within 7 days, Provide records to government representatives within 4 business hours
2 INJURIES, 1 FATALITY: At 1:30 p.m. on December 18, 2018, two employees were changing a tire onto a rim and over-pressurized the tire when setting it onto the tire bead. Employee #1 was struck by the tire and rim in the face and was killed. Employee #2 was hospitalized with injuries. [A third employee was injured but not hospitalized.]
WA 1365999.015 T&M Restoration, LLC VALLEY 06/10/2019 $52,500.00 [no violations linked]
CA 1365423.015 Resource Environmental, Inc. SAN RAFAEL 06/07/2019 $49,500.00 [no violations linked]
FATALITY: At 3:30 p.m. on December 10, 2018, an employee was in the process of performing demolition on an 80 year old stone rock wall which was part of the main house that was being demolished. The employee was using a jack hammer to chip out the bottom portion of the approximately 10 foot high wall that weighed approximately 24,000 pounds. As he got about halfway through the length of the wall from the bottom, the top of the wall collapsed onto him. The employee was was crushed to death by the weight of the wall.
CA 1369551.015 Faro Services, Inc. NORWALK 06/07/2019 $47,670.00 [no violations linked]
CA 1395501.015 Horizon Personnel Services, Inc. SANTA FE SPRINGS 06/07/2019 $51,960.00 [no violations linked]
FL 1380516.015 Campany Roof Maintenance Roofing Division, LLC BONITA SPRINGS 06/07/2019 $51,051.00 Fall protection - steep roofs
TX 1382167.015 H-E-B, LP MISSION 06/07/2019 $85,244.00 Machine guarding, Reporting hospitalization for injury within 24 hours
CO 1397690.015 Walker Manufacturing Company FORT COLLINS 06/06/2019 $45,263.00 General Duty (providing safe workplace), Lockout/Tagout, Machine guarding, Fire extinguishers, Fire watchers, Electrical PPE, Installation of electrical equipment
MO 1372602.015 Franklin County Construction, LLC SAINT PETERS 06/06/2019 $96,265.00 Safety inspections, Safety and health training program, Aerial lifts - personal fall arrest system, Fall protection training and certification, Duty to have fall protection
NY 1369441.015 DGC Capital Contracting Corp. MOUNT VERNON 06/06/2019 $59,672.00 Respiratory protection, Installation of electrical equipment, Wiring methods, Fall protection, Asbestos
KS 1364908.015 MFA Enterprises, Inc. EMPORIA 06/06/2019 $54,560.00 Guardrail systems, Unlocked exit door, Exit door swinging outward, Electrical equipment, Wiring methods, Illuminated exit signs
NE 1366830.015 Family Dollar Store OMAHA 06/06/2019 $302,147.00 Unlocked exit door, Wiring methods, Unobstructed exit routes, Compressed gases handling and storage, Installation of electrical equipment
PA 1367347.015 MW Logistics Services, LLC WASHINGTON 06/06/2019 $47,360.00 Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals, Periodic inspection of energy control procedure (Lockout/Tagout)
3 INJURIES, 1 FATALITY: At 6:00 p.m. on December 13, 2018, four employees were off-loading a vacuum tanker truck of waste material from Stabilizer Tower T511 into a Frac Tank. During the offloading, the gas monitors worn by the employees sounded and all equipment was turned off, vented, and repositioned before restarting the offloading once again. Vapors escaped the Frac Tank through an opened manhole cover and the pump of the vacuum tanker truck. The vapors contacted one or more ignition sources causing a fire. All of the employees were hospitalized from the burns received from the fires and one of the employees died five days later.
KS 1365308.015 Crossland Heavy Contractors, Inc. FREDONIA 06/05/2019 $60,618.00 Rigging equipment - inspection, Documentation of crane / wire rope inspections
NY 1365467.015 Northridge Construction Corp. EAST PATCHOGUE 06/05/2019 $224,620.00 Head protection, Ladders (“The top or top step of a stepladder shall not be used as a step”), Fall protection
FATALITY: At 1:45 p.m. on December 8, 2018, an employee was building a shed. The employee fell from a ladder onto a concrete floor and was killed due to injuries to the head.
KS 1393599.015 Delta Design, LTD TOPEKA 06/04/2019 $58,344.00 Respiratory protection, Powered industrial truck operator evaluation, Written hazard communication, Hazardous chemical information and training
OH 1389341.015 U.S. Cotton, LLC CLEVELAND 06/04/2019 $159,118.00 Lockout/Tagout, Machine guarding
MA 1374461.015 PCI Synthesis NEWBURYPORT 06/04/2019 $86,266.00 Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals
NY 1398654.015 James Renovations, Inc. BEDFORD HILLS 06/04/2019 $62,702.00 Safety training and education, Scaffold training, Fall hazard training, Ground-fault protection, Ladders, Personal fall arrest system, Fall protection
WA 1378192.015 Victoria Enterprises, Inc. SEATTLE 06/04/2019 $42,000.00 [no violations linked]
AR 1386717.015 Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Inc. PINE BLUFF 06/03/2019 $42,300.00 Walking-working surfaces, Portable fire extinguishers, Guarding horizontal shafting, Lockout / Tagout
