Flooring Manufacturer Fined $514K for Safety Violations

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined an Ohio flooring company $514,236 for failing to use adequate procedures to protect workers from unintentional machine activation. OSHA said in a statement that Nox US LLC failed to adopt sufficient lockout/tag-out procedures, inadequately trained employees and failed to protect workers from fall hazards. The alleged violations were uncovered after OSHA investigated injury reports in June. In one case, a worker needed surgery after his hand was crushed in a tile machine. Less than two weeks later, another employee suffered a p...