OSHA says one of the region's largest commercial laundry companies continues to expose its employees to the same workplace hazards that contributed to the 2011 death of a 24-year-old worker at a Prestige Industries LLC facility in Bay Shore, New York.
Newly redesigned STOPOUT®-Branded Aluma-Tag™ Hasp Name plates add a personal touch to your facility. Accuform’s newly re-designed STOPOUT®-branded Aluma-Tag™ Hasps provide an ideal solution for keeping multiple workers safe when working on locked-out equipment.
Master Lock Safety Solutons™ (booth 1539) will introduce its new Blind Flange Lockout Device and offer a “one-stop shop” for all other Safety products, services and resources at the 2015 National Safety Council Expo, September 28-30 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
Accuform provides white papers and other helpful resources on a variety of important topics from Lockout/Tagout to GHS, and successful 5S Implementation.
Examine how you control hazardous energy in your facility. Do you have a specific set of personnel who are exclusively authorized to lockout equipment? Have you identified every source of hazardous energy and posted appropriate signage to alert staff of its location?
A 29-year-old man working at a Brownsville, Texas bowling alley died when his shirt collar tangled in a defective pinsetter, strangling him as the machine twisted the collar tighter.
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One of 1,000+ injuries in 3 1/2 years at one worksite
August 2, 2015
A 56-year-old employee of furniture manufacturer Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. had his right ring finger amputated because the company has continued to ignore safety requirements to protect workers from moving machine parts. The company also failed to report the injury to OSHA, as required.
A John Deere & Co. pipefitter who was fired after reporting several safety violations to OSHA would be reinstated with back pay, under the terms of a lawsuit filed by the agency. On three separate occasions, the worker filed complaints about the company’s Moline, Illinois facility with OSHA, each time resulting in violations against the company.
On June 23, Master Lock’s Kina Repp visited the workplace site that forever changed her life 25 years ago. As the guest of Trident Seafoods CEO Joe Bundrant, she spoke and addressed workplace safety at two of Trident’s fish processing facilities in Naknek, Alaska and other local facilities as part of a new lockout and safety training video she has in production and which Trident is sponsoring.