TimkenSteel faces $400,000 in fines for alleged safety violations
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Nov 04,2015
TimkenSteel Corp. in Canton faces fines of nearly $400,000 for alleged safety violations, including those found after 1,000 pounds of equipment fell on a worker earlier this year.
The seven-year employee could not work for several months after the incident in which he fractured his left foot and broke several bones, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The equipment fell when a crane’s safety latch failed, OSHA said in a news release issued Tuesday.
OSHA said it issued TimkenSteel’s Gambrinus plant one willful, one repeated and two serious safety citations on Oct. 30 as a result of its investigation into the May 4 incident.
“This worker is lucky to be alive,” Howard Eberts, OSHA’s area director in Cleveland said in the news release. “We also observed conditions where workers could have fallen or lost limbs."
TimkenSteel said that over the last five years it has performed better than the industry average in the prevention of lost-time accidents.
“We have no higher priority than workplace safety,” the company said in a statement. “Our goal is for every employee to return home safely at the end of each workday, and so we’ve moved quickly to make corrective actions and will continue to work closely with OSHA to eliminate all issues.”
The injury occurred days after OSHA initiated an inspection at the company’s Harrison steel plant, also in Canton, under the Primary Metals Emphasis Program. The agency said it issued eight repeated, eight serious and one other-than serious violation at the Harrison plant.
TimkenSteel faces proposed fines of $393,500 for violations at the two plants and has been placed in the agency’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program, OSHA said.
TimkenSteel’s Harrison steel plant melts, rolls, produces and finishes steel, and its Gambrinus plant performs cold steel finishing.
The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s area director in Cleveland, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, OSHA said.
TimkenSteel was spun off from Timken Co., which has relocated to Jackson Twp., last year.
(Akron Beacon Journal)
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