N.J. auto parts seller fined $1.2M for 33 safety citations
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Following an investigation into a serious workplace injury at a Camden, New Jersey, auto shop, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations for 33 safety violations and a proposed penalty of $1,260,275.
An inspection of My Auto Store, operated by automobile dismantling company The Auto Store LLC, was initiated after a vehicle lift crushed a worker’s hand. From the inspection, OSHA determined that The Auto Store LLC failed to have proper safeguards in place to protect employees from an accidental machine startup, and identified 33 workplace safety and health violations, including willful, repeat and serious citations.
Among the violations, OSHA found that the store willfully failed to develop and use lockout/tagout and machine guarding procedures to prevent employees from being hit by the moving conveyor line; did not prevent fires, which happened frequently along the conveyor line when sparking tools ignited gasoline vapors; failed to keep an emergency egress clear and did not protect employees from being caught in automobile lifts.
The store was also cited for failure to equip employees with personal protective equipment or provide fire extinguisher training and exposing workers to electrical, noise, machine guarding, crushing and flammable material hazards.
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