Shilo Management Corp: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Feb 27, 1996 (fatal): Employee killed when struck by falling vending machine

Employee #1, a maintenance worker, had completed his assigned task of stocking a closet with supplies for the housekeeping workers at a hotel. He was found dead in an adjacent vending machine room, crushed between a wall and a coin operated vending machine that had fallen forward. The vending machine was serviced by an outside contractor and hotel employees do not work with the machines. There wer e no witnesses, and it is not known what caused the machine to fall forward.

Incident on Apr 20, 1995: Nine employees injured after inhaling chemicals

Around noon on April 20, 1994, nine employees from the housekeeping and laundry departments were exposed to chemical vapors after a maintenance employee mixed t wo laundry chemicals together while changing and filling up buckets for a washin g machine in the laundry room. According to the bucket labels, one chemical was laundry bleach and the other was emulsifier. The mixture resulted in chemical fu mes coming from the bucket. Employees who stayed in the laundry room, or who wal ked into the laundry room from the adjacent lunchroom or the hallway, were expos ed to the vapors. Employees #1 through #9 experienced headaches, nausea, and vom iting and were taken to different hospitals for periods ranging from one to five hours. No one stayed overnight, was administered oxygen, or received treatment.