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

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 the hazards created by operating a printing press without proper training and standardized operating procedures: Press #8 - On 9/2/05, an employee was fatally injured while helping perform a manual roll change on a printing press. The employee got caught between a roll of paper and the framework of the roll stand as the turret was rotating a new roll of paper into position. There are no written operating procedures for any of the tasks related to operating the press. Training is on the job training performed by the person with the "next level" of experience on the press ( i.e. the roll tender trains the stacker and the head pressman trains the 2nd pressman). There are four shifts and six presses. As most people have their own way of doing things and the fact that the presses are not identical, with each having slightly different safety and operating features, this presents a problem in insuring adequate training for the press operating personnel. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct the hazard is to develop standard operating procedures and train employees based upon those procedures.