Nan Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jul 7, 2020: Two employees receive crush injuries when struck by falling

At 3:00 a.m. on July 7, 2024, Employee #1 and Employee #2, both carpenters, were working for a structural concrete contractor. The employees were midway through the night shift working on a crew with a coworker. The crew was working on the roadway preparing to move a 74-inch by 110-inch by 1.5-inch, 1,200-pound, glass panel that was stacked on a sideways crate along with two other glass panels. The panels were supported by a beam that was placed across the panels at a 45-degree angle. The crew was preparing to use a WPG Manual Rotator Power Tilter suction cup machine to hoist the panel 30 feet up and onto a pedestrian bridge. This crate was the fourth crate that the crew had opened the same shift. The employees had been performing this type of installation for three days. The crew performs the task by attaching a power tilter to a glass panel after attaching the power tilter to a crane. The crew then lifts the power tilter to the pedestrian bridge along with the glass panel. While trying to attach the suction cups, all three glass panels shifted forward. Employee #1 was standing on one side of the glass panels trying to stabilize the panels in the crate when his right leg became caught underneath the stack. The coworker used a forklift to lift the panels while Employee #2, the foreman and WPG remote controller, stood on the other end of the glass panel, helping to stabilize the panel. While trying to stabilize the panel, Employee #2 got his toe stuck under the panel. The employees were rushed to the emergency room. Employee #1 broke his right fibula and was hospitalized for two days. Employee #2 was hospitalized to treat a crushed left toe.

Incident on Oct 29, 2012 (fatal): Worker crushed and killed by falling wall

At 1:34 p.m. on October 29, 2012, an employee was cutting a kerf line with a chipping gun which was a foot away from the bottom of wall. The wall was 5 foot 6 inches tall and 9 inches thick. The employee, a construction laborer who started work for the employer 2 months prior to the accident, was demolishing a large section of an existing interior concrete wall. The demolition plan relied on the existing rebar supports in the wall to brace the wall until it could be pushed over to the floor and broken up using jackhammers. This process involved cutting a kerf line with a chipping gun on both sides of the wall approximately one foot from the floor. This line essentially scored the wall to allow the wall to break at that point. The section of the wall the employee was working on did not have rebar running as far through the walls as previous sections and was not sufficiently supported while cutting the kerf line. The wall fell on the employee. The employee sustained blunt force trauma and was killed. sustained blunt force trauma and was killed.