The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a wood manufacturer with 10 safety violations and $148,400 in penalties after determining that the employer's failure to guard machinery exposed workers to amputation hazards. Investigators from the federal agency's Dallas office first inspected Lone Star Reel Corp.'s Throckmorton Street facility in February and discovered two willful violations for failure to provide workers with safety procedures on how to avoid machine-related amputations. The company is based in McKinney, Texas. A willful violation is one committed with in...
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