Two Fort Worth, Texas-based companies have been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for multiple serious safety and health violations. Penalties total $134,000 collectively.
Five Star Custom Foods Ltd. was cited for 25 serious safety and health violations. Subcontractor Packers Sanitation Services Inc. was cited for two serious safety violations concerning exposure to hazardous chemicals at the company’s facility on East First Street.
Fourteen serious violations involve failing to ensure that equipment related to the process complied with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices; recommendations in the process hazard analysis were processed; standard operating procedures were annually certified; an ammonia detector system was provided; contract employees were informed of the potential of fire and/or toxic release hazards; and compliance audits were conducted at least every three years.
An additional 11 safety violations involve failing to develop machine-specific lockout/tagout procedures for the control of hazardous energy; maintain work areas free of slip, trip and fall hazards; keep exit areas unobstructed; and to address electrical wiring deficiencies.
A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
OSHA cited Packers Sanitation Services, which provides janitorial services, with two serious safety violations involving the failure to train employees to work with hazardous chemicals and not providing safety data sheets.
Five Star Custom Foods and Packers Sanitation, have 15 business days from receipt of their citations to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s Fort Worth area director or contest the citations and proposed penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
The citations can be viewed at http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/Five_Star_Custom_Foods_LTD_487978_1212_12.pdf* and http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/Packers_Sanitation_Services_Inc_469798_1212_12.pdf.*
Source: OSHA
Topics Texas Workers' Compensation
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