| February 4, 2015- For the 4th Time in a Year, OSHA Cites Burrows Paper |
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking $122,500 in fines from Burrows Paper Corp. Citations were for two repeated and two serious violations and placed the company inand placed the company in its Severe Violators Enforcement Program for failing to correct safety deficiencies.
"How long will it take before Burrows Paper begins to value the safety and health of its employees? Injuries caused by these machines often end in disfigurement, disability or death, yet this company continuously fails to fix those problems," said Bill Wilkerson, OSHA's area director in Cincinnati. "This is frustrating and inexcusable, and we promise that we'll keep coming back until Burrows Paper learns that safety is nonnegotiable."
OSHA's most recent inspection found that Burrows Paper had not developed procedures to ensure that the die- cutting machine and paper-sorting machine would not unintentionally operate during servicing or maintenance, a procedure known as lockout/tagout.
In July 2014, OSHA cited the company after two employees were injured in separate incidents. One of those injuries also involved machine hazards. OSHA issues repeated violations if an employer was previously cited for the same or a similar violation of any standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years.
Two serious violations address Burrows Paper's failure to verify the effectiveness of energy isolating procedures on the paper-sorting and die-cutting machines.
An OSHA violation is serious if death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard an employer knew or should have known exits.
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January 29, 2015
BRADFORD, Pa. - Two American Refining Group (ARG) employees were injured early Wednesday when an electrical arc flash occurred as they were working on electrical equipment at the plant.
Sara Furlong, executive communications coordinator at ARG, said information released by Don Keck, senior vice president of operations, stated the incident occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m. in the motor control center of the crude unit. Mrs. Furlong said two male employees, who were not identified, were working in the facility, which is undergoing expansion due to growing electrical requirements at the refinery. The crude unit is located in the plant between North Kendall Avenue and Mill Street. The incident did not disrupt operations at the plant.
"They were doing routine work at the crude unit" when the arc flash occurred, Mrs. Furlong said. After the arc flash, which did not cause a fire, the employee with less severe injuries was able to radio for assistance. "They were both injured. One was taken by ambulance to Bradford Regional Medical Center and the other was flown by Mercy Flight helicopter to (Erie County Medical Center) in Buffalo, (N.Y.)," Mrs. Furlong said. She could not provide details on the injuries.
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