Employer name: Rohm-Haas Electronics Material, LLC, doing business as Dow Chemical Co.
60 Willow St., North Andover, Massachusetts a manufacturer of specialty chemicals.

What prompted OSHA’s inspection: On Jan. 7, 2016, an explosion occurred as plant employees were engaged in the trimethyl aluminum cylinder reclamation process. The process involves purging the cylinders of residual amounts of trimethyl aluminum, a substance that can ignite spontaneously in air. Four employees were injured as a result of the explosion.

WICHITA, Kan. – Federal safety inspectors have again found blocked exits and other hazards at stores operated by national discount retailer, Dollar General – this time in Wichita and Clay Center.

MARTHASVILLE, Mo. – Federal investigators found the electrocution death of a 43-year-old welder could have been prevented if his employer had de-energized conductors and followed electrical safe work practices at its Missouri machine shop.

Employer name: La Espiga de Oro Inc.

Location: 1202 W 15th St., Houston, Texas 77008

Citations issued: Aug. 1, 2016

Employer name: KWS Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Inspection site: 3041 Conveyor Drive, Burleson, Texas 76028

Citations issued: July 28, 2016

Employer name: Anthony Smith, doing business as Center Stage

Inspection site: 3901 Michael Blvd., Mobile, Alabama 36609           

Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on July 29.

Employer name: Switchback Timber Inc., P.O. Box 977, Bradley, West Virginia 

Inspection site: Dorothy Tract, RR 3, Dorothy, West Virginia            

Employer name: B C Main Construction Inc., doing business as MAIN

Inspection Site: 22500 SR 7 North, Dover, Arkansas 72837

Citations issued: July 29, 2016

ROCKMART, Ga. – In the agricultural industry, excessive dust is a fuel that can cause serious and sometimes deadly explosions and fires – as was the case at a Georgia chicken feed mill where an explosion killed a 25-year-old man and injured five others in February 2016, federal workplace safety inspectors have found.

Employer name: Swifty Athens LLC, doing business as Swifty Car Wash LLC

Inspection site: 2434 W. Broad St., Athens, Georgia 30606

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Swifty Car Wash on July 30 for 10 serious and one other-than-serious safety violations.

SUPERIOR, Wis. –  Federal health inspectors found Fraser Shipyards Inc. overexposed workers to lead during the retrofitting of a ship’s engine room. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s sampling results determined 14 workers had lead levels up to 20 times the exposure limit. The agency also found workers exposed to other heavy metals.

Employer name: The Spoon Group, doing business as “Prop N Spoon”

Inspection site: 970 New Brunswick Ave., Bldg. 1, Rahway, New Jersey 

Employer name: Nucor-Yamato Steel Inc.

Inspection Site: 5929 E. State Highway 18, Blytheville, Arkansas 72315

Citations issued: July 29, 2016

ADDISON, Ill. ‒ Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a United Parcel Service facility in Addison, a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services, fell 22 feet to his death at the same site.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors cited an Uncasville manufacturer that makes tachometers and speed-measuring devices for 11 serious violations, including obvious amputation, crushing, and electrical hazards.

Employer name: Oscar Renda Contracting Inc.

Inspection site: Subdivision on Shepherd Street, Houston, Texas

Citations issued: July 28, 2016

NEW YORK – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited two Queens construction companies a total of $117,170 for exposing workers to fall, fire and electrical hazards while rehabilitating three adjoining buildings at 223 Grand St. in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

PALATINE, Ill. – Federal safety inspectors found a suburban Chicago electroplating company continues to put its employees in danger of serious injuries by failing to install adequate machine safety guards, train workers in machine safety procedures and correct electrical deficiencies in the plant – all violations for which inspectors cited the Arlington Plating Company in 2013.

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
U.S. Forest Service

Employer name: Great Southern Peanut LLC

Inspection site: 132 5^th St., Leesburg, Georgia 31763

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on July 25 for 13 repeated, four serious and four other-than-serious safety and health violations.