OSHA Inspection: GUTTENPLANS FROZEN DOUGH

Issued

2003-11-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2003-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1750.00 · Current $1313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
employer did not
furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from
recognized hazards that
were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to
employees in that employees
were exposed to, occluded in-running nip points on a bagel forming machine
while cleaning the
machine due to lack of proper operations/maintenance training:
a). Establishment (bagel forming) BM-BFC-1001 Bagel Former - Employees had
not
received proper training in their native language to operate and perform
operational
maintenance on a bagel forming machine as evidenced by a serious injury to
an employee
as he performed cleaning of a running bagel forming machine. On or about
8-29-03.
Among other methods, one feasible abatement method is to 1)., Conduct
operator
training in the native language of the operator and validate the training
to ensure
complete compliance.  2)., Translation of the operations manual into the
native
language of the operator and ensure the operators can read and understand
these
instructions 3)., Conduct training to ensure all operators understand the
meaning
of all warning symbols affixed to the machine(s).