OSHA Inspection: B.I. BROOKS & SONS, INC.

Issued

2024-09-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4610.00 · Current $3688.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.178(l)(4)(iii):  An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance was not conducted at least once every three years.   At the workplace located at 2925 Industrial Road, Junction City, Kansas, the employer failed to verify the power industrial truck operator training.  It had been more than 16 years since the last powered industrial training for one operator, thus exposing employees to struck-by powered industrial truck hazards.

Issued

2024-09-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2765.00 · Current $2765.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace:  At the workplace located at 2925 Industrial Road, Junction City, Kansas, the employer failed to maintain safety data sheets for employees. Employees were exposed to chemical hazards that included but was not limited to oxygen and acetylene for performing welding tasks. The hazards associated with these chemicals include: skin burns or frostbite, may explode if heated or intensify existing fires, extremely flammable gas, may form explosive mixtures with air.  The chemicals can act as fueling agents due to their flammability as compressed gases.

Issued

2024-09-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6452.00 · Current $5162.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2):  Each scaffold platform and walkway was not at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide:  At the workplace located at 2925 Industrial Road, Junction City, Kansas, the employer failed to ensure that platforms which employees were utilizing to conduct work was at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide. An employee stepped onto the midrail of a mobile elevated work platform to elevate his work level height.  The guardrail surface was not at least 18 inches wide and exposed the employee to a fall hazard of approximately 20 feet - 9 inches.

Issued

2024-09-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6452.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):   Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in accordance with paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section:    At the workplace located at 2925 Industrial Road, Junction City, Kansas, the employer failed to ensure that employees were protected from fall hazards while working from a mobile scaffold. An employee stepped onto the mid-rail of a JLG scissor lift to elevate his work level height. The employee's personal fall arrest harness was not anchored, thus exposing the employee to a fall hazard of approximately 20 feet - 9 inches.

Issued

2024-09-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2765.00 · Current $2212.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(c)(1)(vi):  Industrial truck(s) in use did not meet the applicable requirements of design, construction, stability, inspection, testing, maintenance, and operation, as defined in American National Standards Institute B56.1-1969, Safety Standards for Powered Industrial Trucks:  At the workplace located at 2925 Industrial Road, Junction City, Kansas, the employer failed to conduct pre-operational equipment inspections for powered industrial trucks such as a forklift and JLG SKYTRAK lift that was being used to assemble steel beams at a construction site, thus were being exposed to struck by hazards due to not performing consistent pre-job powered industrial truck equipment inspections as specified by the manufacturer and required under ANSI B56.1-1969, Part III, Section 7 - 702.