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New Image Tree Services: OSHA inspections and violations

South Bend, Indiana · Landscaping Services · NAICS 561730

1inspections
5citation items
$5,250current penalties
Dec 23, 2019last inspection

OSHA has inspected New Image Tree Services once in Indiana.

The inspection began on Dec 23, 2019 after a fatality or catastrophe, in South Bend; the case is still open.

That inspection ended with 5 citation items: 4 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $12,750 and now stand at $5,250, 59% lower after settlements or reviews.

Hazard communication comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.1200.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for staffing, cleaning and waste services employers since 2015 is $2,201, and New Image Tree Services averages $5,250 (1 cited inspection).

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

New Image Tree Services: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344527411 OPENED DEC 23, 2019Open

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 6 employees at the site · Open

18644 Cleveland Road, South Bend, IN 46637 · Landscaping Services · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Dec 22, 2019 (fatal): Employee is struck by tree while being felled and is killed

On December 22, 2019, an employee was struck by a tree that when it split while being cut down and was killed.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 22.8(1)(1)(SEC2)
 Serious$7,000$3,500Mar 4, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$750$750Mar 4, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$0Mar 4, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2c
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$0Mar 4, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
 Other-than-serious$5,000$1,000Mar 4, 2020Final

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1)

(a) Basic requirement. (1) Within eight (8) hours after the death of any employee as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the fatality to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor.

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(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.)

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