Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002D Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.217(e)(1):Inspection, maintenance, and modification of presses - Inspection and maintenance records. The employer shall establish and follow an inspection program having a general component and a directed component. (e)(1)(i) Under the general component of the inspection program, the employer shall: (A) Conduct periodic and regular inspections of each power press to ensure that all of its parts, auxiliary equipment, and safeguards, including the clutch/brake mechanism, anti-repeat feature, and single-stroke mechanism, are in a safe operating condition and adjustment; (B) Perform and complete necessary maintenance or repair, or both, before operating the press; and (C) Maintain a certification record of each inspection, and each maintenance and repair task performed, under the general component of the inspection program that includes the date of the inspection, maintenance, or repair work, the signature of the person who performed the inspection, maintenance, or repair work, and the serial number, or other identifier, of the power press inspected, maintained, and repaired. a) On or about July 9, 2024, the employer did not perform adequate inspections of Mechanical Power Presses such as but not limited to; the Minster 400, Stamtec G2-250, Stamtec GTX-300 to ensure that periodic and regular inspections of each power press included it parts such as the mode operated in, auxiliary equipment such as the feeder, and safeguards such as the removing the key from the selector switch, ensuring the presses were not operated in inch mode, ensuring the feeder was part of the point of operation guarding for the Minster 400, making sure that all maintenance or repairs were done such as correcting the location of the light curtains on the back of the presses to ensure that employees could not reach into the back of the press and maintaining a certification record for each inspection and maintenance and repair conducted on each mechanical power press to prevent exposure to hazards such as but not limited to pinch point hazards due to machine guards not present for the point of operation of the feeder of the Minster 400, undetected spaces around the presses of the Stamtec G2-250 and Stamtec GTX-300, and bypassed anti-repeating features of the Stamtec G1-80.