Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 003 Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1): One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by ingoing nip points or rotating parts: On or about February 1, 2017, and times prior to, (a) Employees were not prohibited from traveling in the vicinity of unguarded spools and wire in the PP Payoff area. Employees were exposed to contact with rotating parts, drawing wire and nip points. (b) Employees were not prohibited from traveling beneath wires coming from PP Payoff going into the Furnace entrance area. Employees were exposed to contact with drawing wire. (c) In the Course Draw area, employees reach a pipe beneath the gate guard on the course draw machines to hold down wire to connect properly to rotating blocks. This practice exposed employees to inadvertent contact with rotating parts. (d) In the PP Storage Standing area, clam shell machines were not guarded to prevent employees for opening the standing hood while wire is twisting/stranding on the spool. Employees were exposed to struck-by hazards. (e) In the Stranding area, employees were not prohibited from traveling in the vicinity of unguarded spools and wire on the stranding machines. Employees were exposed to contact with rotating parts, drawing wire and nip points.