Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001 Hazard: UNAPOPPROC

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to: (a) The recognized hazard of injury resulting from equipment malfunction and/or failure, in that the employer did not institute a policy and procedure for conducting daily, periodic, regular inspections, and training for trim press set-up personnel and trim press operating personnel for the set-up and operation of hydraulic trim presses. Among other methods, feasible and acceptable methods to correct the hazard include: (a) Establish procedures for set-up personnel accomplishing die-setting operations to follow in order to ensure that the employee(s) are protected from the hazards associated with point of operation and moving parts of the trim presses in accordance with ANSI B11.2 - 1995 section 9.2.3. (b) Establish procedures for the training of set-up personnel in accordance with ANSI B11.2 - 1995 section 9.2.4. (c) Establish procedures to ensure that newly set dies are safeguarded at the point of operation, the safeguards should be checked, maintained, and adjusted in accordance with ANSI B11.2 - 1995 section 9.2.8. (d) Establish procedures for the training of operators in the proper care and use of the press. The instructions should include but not limited to: 1) a description of the assigned task; 2) the function of controls to be encountered in performing the assigned task; 3) the hazards associated with the assigned task; 4) the designated method of safeguarding; 5) the method of function testing or otherwise assuring the proper function of safeguarding means. Operators should also be instructed to report inconsistent or unpredictable performance of the press production system in accordance with ANSI B11.2 - 1995 section E10.2.n