Langboard, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jan 21, 2021: Employee lacerates fingertips while unjamming energized mach

At 12:45 p.m. on January 21, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a recycled wood manufacturer was troubleshooting an MDF sander. The machine had jammed due to built-up saw dust. The employee was trying to unplug the dust line from the sander dust cyclone to the sander dust silo when he put his left hand too close to the feeder airlock. The employee's hand was struck by the rotating airlock fins. The employee lacerated his ring and pinky fingertips and required medical treatment without hospitalization.

Incident on May 8, 2004 (fatal): Employee dies after fall as the crane collapsed.

On May 8, 2004, an employee, a crane operator was loading wood logs on the deck of a drum debarker using a 32 ton log handling portal crane, Andritz Konewood Lo gporter. During this activity, a section of the crane structure, girder, failed and collapsed. The employee fell from the operator's cab, approximately 50 ft, i nto the ground. He died on-site.

Incident on Aug 19, 1997 (fatal): Employee killed in fall when catwalk grate dislodges

Employee #1 had just finished unclogging a log jam and was starting to exit the log conveyor area. This required he scale a 42 1/2 in. tall metal retaining wall , and then hop off the wall onto a catwalk. As Employee #1's feet hit the catwal k, a 36 in. by 40 in. section of grating became dislodged from its supports and both the grating and Employee #1 fell 16 ft onto a concrete surface. Employee #1 suffered a severe skull fracture and was killed.