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Simmons Logging, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Toone, Tennessee · Sawmills · NAICS 321113

3inspections
16citation items
$13,300current penalties
Apr 20, 2018last inspection

OSHA has inspected Simmons Logging, LLC 3 times in Tennessee since 2015.

The latest one began on Apr 20, 2018 on a referral, in Toone.

Those inspections ended with 16 citation items: 13 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $13,800 and now stand at $13,300, 4% lower after settlements or reviews.

Noise comes up most often in these citations: 9 items under 1910.95.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Simmons Logging, LLC averages $6,650 (2 cited inspections).

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Simmons Logging, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343101390 OPENED APR 20, 2018Closed

Referral · Partial · Health · 29 employees at the site · Closed Sep 24, 2018

305 Old Toone Rd, Toone, TN 38381 · Sawmills · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a Serious$2,000$1,500Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1b Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1c Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1d Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1e Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1f Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1g Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1h Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1i Serious$0$0Jun 26, 2018Final

Inspection 343024022 OPENED MAR 14, 2018Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Complete · Safety · 22 employees at the site · Closed Sep 17, 2018

305 Old Toone Rd, Toone, TN 38381 · Sawmills · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Mar 14, 2018 (fatal): Employee is struck by front end loader bucket and is killed

At 5:45 a.m. on March 14, 2018, an employee was walking between two mills and was struck by a Komatso WA-320-7 wheel loader's bucket. The employee suffered injuries to his head and chest. The employee was killed.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$1,600$1,600Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$0$0Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2 Serious$4,800$4,800Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR TCA 50-3-105(1)
Serious$4,800$4,800Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
Other-than-serious$200$200Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 6, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 3
29 CFR TDLWD RULE 800-01-03-.03(27)(B)3
Other-than-serious$400$400Aug 6, 2018Final

Inspection 340769934 OPENED JUL 10, 2015Closed

Planned · No inspection · Safety · 6 employees at the site · Closed Aug 4, 2015

775 Mount Carmel Road, Whiteville, TN 38075 · Logging · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

The rules behind these citations

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

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(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

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 1910.265 · Sawmills

29 CFR 1910.95 · Noise

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