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Otero County Solid Waste: OSHA inspections and violations

Cloudcroft, New Mexico · Other Waste Collection · NAICS 562119

1inspections
3citation items
$3,500current penalties
Nov 10, 2015last inspection

Otero County Solid Waste has one OSHA inspection on record in New Mexico.

OSHA opened it on Nov 10, 2015 on a referral, in Cloudcroft.

From that inspection OSHA issued 3 citation items: 1 serious and 2 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $3,500 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all staffing, cleaning and waste services employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $2,201. Otero County Solid Waste averages $3,500 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

Otero County Solid Waste: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2015
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341048106 OPENED NOV 10, 2015Closed

Referral · Complete · Safety · Local government · 20 employees at the site · Closed Jun 6, 2016

230 Mescalero Ave., Cloudcroft, NM 88317 · Other Waste Collection · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(ii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$3,500$3,500Apr 8, 2016Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.40(a) · Giving injury records to OSHA
 Other-than-serious$0$0Apr 8, 2016Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Other-than-serious$0$0Apr 8, 2016Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.40 · Giving injury records to OSHA

29 CFR 1904.40(a)

(a) Basic requirement. When an authorized government representative asks for the records you keep under part 1904, you must provide copies of the records within four (4) business hours.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(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 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(ii)

(ii) Flexible cords may be used only in continuous lengths without splice or tap. Hard-service cord and junior hard-service cord No. 14 and larger may be repaired if spliced so that the splice retains the insulation, outer sheath properties, and usage characteristics of the cord being spliced.

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