Workers exposed to failing concrete at Indianapolis mail processing center
Facility had plan to address issue in 2014, OSHA proposes $77K in fines
Employer name: U.S. Postal Service, 125 West South Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Citations issued: June 2, 2016
Investigation findings: A follow-up inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found a U.S. Postal Service sorting facility in Indianapolis failed to adequately address hazards from a crumbling parking structure that was falling on its workers.
In August 2014, USPS presented a plan to OSHA outlining measures intended to protect workers on the mail sorting floor from crumbling concrete from the second-story parking lot. In December 2015, OSHA received a complaint alleging the employer had not corrected the safety hazards adequately. The investigation found:
Proposed Penalties: $77,000
View Citations here.
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 Indianapolis Area Office at (317) 226-7290.
Citations issued: June 2, 2016
Investigation findings: A follow-up inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found a U.S. Postal Service sorting facility in Indianapolis failed to adequately address hazards from a crumbling parking structure that was falling on its workers.
In August 2014, USPS presented a plan to OSHA outlining measures intended to protect workers on the mail sorting floor from crumbling concrete from the second-story parking lot. In December 2015, OSHA received a complaint alleging the employer had not corrected the safety hazards adequately. The investigation found:
- Employees unprotected from chunks of concrete debris falling from the ceiling above them as the USPS failed to provide netting or scaffolding, resulting in a willful violation.
- The USPS failed to provide hard hats to employees exposed to overhead falling concrete debris, resulting in a serious violation.
Proposed Penalties: $77,000
View Citations here.
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 Indianapolis Area Office at (317) 226-7290.