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Risk Assessment Could Have Saved Worker’s Life

Singapore – MW Group faces a $200,000 fine resulting from a fatal workplace electrocution. Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower has ruled that a professional Arc Flash Risk Assessment and safe work procedures could have prevented the 2013 fatal electrocution of a worker at the MW Group Pte Ltd’s Pantech Business Hub. Following a five day trial,…

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Lockout Training Could Have Saved Employee’s Life

Jeffersonville, IN – Lockout procedures and lockout training could have saved the life of former Autoneum employee Melissa Stephens. That’s the finding of the Indiana arm of OSHA which found five safety violations following the employee death in October at Autoneum’s Jeffersonville (IN) facility. The automotive manufacturer has been fined $224,000 for violations which IOSHA believes…

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TN Lineman Recovering from Arc Flash

Dickson, TN – On August 25, Dickson Electric Systems substation supervisor Zach Spicer suffered second-degree burns to his face and neck in an arc flash incident at the DES Old White Bluff Substation. According to the victim’s sister-in-law, Spicer “was accessing a breaker cabinet, high voltage side when contact or an arc formed, causing an electrical…

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Lockout Compliance Could Have Prevented Amputation at DE Poultry Facility

Selbyville, DE – Compliance with federal standards for lockout/tagout procedures and training could have prevented an amputation at a Delaware poultry facility. OSHA has found serious lockout/tagout violations at Mountaire poultry processing. OSHA inspected the facility in June after receiving a report that a worker’s finger was amputated while operating a packaging machine. Fines for the…

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$115K in Fines for Lockout Failures at NJ Plastics Plant

West Deptford, NJ – OSHA has cited Solvay Specialty Polymers USA LLC with three repeat and eight serious safety violations, proposing fines totaling $115,000. The chemical facility located in West Deptford (NJ) is a part of the Belgian plastics firm Solvay S.A. OSHA investigated the NJ Solvay Specialty Polymers facility in Feb. 2016 and found several repeat violations of federal…

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Lockout Failure at Dynergy Results in Amputation + $92K in OSHA Fines

Baldwin, IL – Dynergy Midwest Generation, Inc has been issued one willful and seven serious citations by OSHA after an investigation triggered by a 2015 lockout-tagout accident that resulted in the amputation of an employee’s fingers. These citations carry an fine totalling $92,000. The accident occurred at Dynergy’s Baldwin (IL) Energy Complex. A 46-year-old worker lost four…

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