August 2, 2016
OSHA finds Tyson employees exposed to occupational noise,
other hazards at two Holcomb, Kansas, facilities
other hazards at two Holcomb, Kansas, facilities
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. a division doing business as Tyson Hides and Tannery
Holcomb, Kansas
Citations issued: July 29, 2016
Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Wichita Area Office cited Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. and Tyson Hides and Tannery for a total of two repeated, five serious, and one other than serious safety and health violations.
The inspections at the two adjacent facilities in Holcomb in February 2016 found the company failed to follow OSHA's standards for occupational noise exposure including:
- Conducting noise sampling.
- Implementing engineering controls to reduce exposure.
- Evaluating employee's noise exposure when audiometric testing shows a threshold shift.
- Conducting baseline audiograms.
- Providing training for workers.
- Ensuring proper recordkeeping.
- Install adequate machine guards around rotating shafts
- Provide eye wash stations.
- Mark exit routes.
Proposed Penalties: $85,500
View health citations issued to Tyson Fresh Meats and safety and health citations issued to Tyson Hides and Tannery.
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 Wichita Area Office at 316-269-6644.
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