Boral Bricks, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Gleason, Tennessee · Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing · NAICS 327121
10inspections
12citation items
$2,133current penalties
Oct 21, 2016last inspection
Since 1993, OSHA inspectors have visited Boral Bricks, Inc. in Tennessee 10 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Oct 21, 2016 as a planned inspection, in Jackson.
In all, OSHA issued 12 citation items: 3 serious and 9 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $2,600; today they stand at $2,133, 18% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.305 (electrical wiring methods), 2 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $4,500 penalty. Boral Bricks, Inc. averages $400 across 1 cited inspection.
Boral Bricks, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Tennessee · latest 90 days of OSHA records
349employers cited
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Gleason site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 44 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Boral Bricks-Gleason 060-Boral
Gleason · 2016
44
0
0
0.0
3.0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(ii) Spacing (shell-to-shell) between aboveground tanks. (a) The distance between any two flammable liquid storage tanks shall not be less than 3 feet.
(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
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