CLAIRTON, PA – A Pennsylvania manufacturer’s failure to provide guarding on a brick crushing machine ended in a 53-year-old worker suffering an arm amputation while operating the machine.
A subsequent federal investigation at TYK America Inc.’s Clairton refractory products manufacturing facility found the company previously identified a deficiency with the machine’s guarding but kept the machine operational and did not repair the deficiency prior to the amputation incident.
OSHA cited TYK America for 11 safety violations – including one willful and eight serious – following an investigation initiated on Nov. 18, 2021.
OSHA proposed $108,769 in penalties for the violations.
Inspectors determined that the injured worker’s left hand and arm were caught and pulled into the rotating drums of the machine while loading brick pieces into it. OSHA found the company failed to provide guarding to prevent employees from having any part of their body in the danger zone during operation.
This hazard was identified during previous periodic inspections of the machine by the employer, but repairs were never made – a willful violation cited by OSHA.
Additional serious violations and other-than-serious violations included A lack of warning labels and guarding on machinery and workers exposed to electrical, crushed-by, and struck-by hazards while using a damaged hoist to lift lance pipes and molds weighing up to approximately 1,619 pounds.
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