OSHA proposes $48,500 against Tonawanda Coke Corporation for 14 serious violations
May 7, 2010
US Labor Department's OSHA proposes $48,500 against Tonawanda Coke Corporation for 14 serious violations
U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) proposed $48,500 in fines against Tonawanda Coke Corporation for 14 alleged violations of workplace safety and health standards at the organiations River Road plant in Tonawanda, New York where it produces a coal by-product, foundry coke. The citations address deficiencies involving the plants industrial hygiene, respiratory protection program, coke oven operations and use of PPE (personal protective equipment).
"Ensuring the health and safety of workers in coke oven operations makes it essential that effective and proper safeguards be in place and in use at all times in this type of work environment," said Arthur Dube, OSHA's area director in Buffalo. "Safeguards encompass respiratory protection, personal protective equipment, correct work practices and engineering controls, the primary means of minimizing workers exposure to airborne contaminants."
The plant failed to implement work specific procedures in the planet's respiratory protection program, properly train workers on the storge, use and maintenance of respirator selection and also verifying the use of protective clothing by employees.
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