Pipe insulator and staffing agency cited for exposing workers to amputation hazards in Houston

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Pipe insulator and staffing agency cited for exposing workers to amputation hazards in Houston

The following press release was published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Aug. 17, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

Link to the citations: http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/CandCPersonnelLLC_1047081.pdf

http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/RockWoolManufacturing_1057336.pdf

http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/RockWoolManufacturing_1047033.pdf

http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/CandCPersonnelLLC_1064742.pdf

Information: Rock Wool Manufacturing, headquartered in Leeds, Alabama, has facilities in Leeds and Houston; and C & C Personnel is headquartered in Texas. Both companies have 15 business days from receipt of its citations to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director, or contest the citations and penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

To ask questions; obtain compliance assistance; file a complaint or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Houston North office at 936-760-3800. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.

Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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