Severe injury at Texas manufacturing co. was only the latest
OSHA charges company with creating a “dangerous work environment”
An OSHA inspection into an incident in which a worker’s arms were crushed while he was operating an unguarded machine uncovered information about two other incidents at the same facility; both of them involving severe injuries to employees while operating similar machinery.
The agency has cited Custom Rubber Products LLC, which is owned by Paris-based Flexitallic Group, with eight willful, egregious violations. OSHA says the company "created a dangerous work environment by failing to guard machines, which exposed workers to life-threatening hazards." Proposed penalties for the Houston facility total $560,000.