OSHA Inspection: LIGHTNING ROD AND PIPE, LLC

Issued

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-02-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.   On or about December 15, 2015, on the production floor, where employees were exposed to thermal hazards while servicing a Sterling Extruder without having an energy control program in place.