Oxford Facility Hit With $77K OSHA Fine
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has slapped Oxford-based concrete manufacturer Flagg-Palmer Precast with nearly $77,000 in fines.
The administration said the fines were related to "a variety of hazards that should not exist in this type of workplace." The fine is the result of an inspection triggered by an employee complaint. Some of the violations are repeats of violations for which the company was cited in 2006.
OSHA said the inspection turned up bridge cranes with defective components, production and common areas "littered with oil tanks, concrete rubble, combustible trash, rubbish and other debris," blocked emergency exits, lack of eye, head and foot protection for workers, no emergency eyewash station, a defective forklift that employees weren't trained to use in the first place and other unguarded equipment such as table saws, grinders and hazardous chemicals.
Those violations resulted in $43,500 in fines.
The company was also ordered to pay $32,400 in repeat fines for hazards similar to those found in 2006. Those citations related to the plant's unmarked confined spaces, the lack of a written confined space hazard program and several other equipment training and safety communications violations.
Flagg-Palmer was also fined $1,000 for keeping an incomplete log of occupational injuries at the plant. The company has 15 days to either meet with OSHA or contest the penalties.
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