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OSHA Cites KMA Manufacturing for Multiple Violations after Fatal Accident

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OSHA has cited KMA Manufacturing LLC for numerous alleged safety and health violations following a fatal industrial accident in December 2007. OSHA is proposing a total of $119,400 in fines for the violations.

OSHA initiated its investigation of the Beaver County facility, which employs 49 people, on Dec. 27, 2007, in response to the accident when a six-ton piece of stainless steel became dislodged from a crane and fell onto an employee. The investigation resulted in 42 serious violations and four repeat violations.

The serious violations include the company's failure to ensure that a swivel hook, which was used on an overhead crane to lift annealing furnace covers, was equipped with a safety latch. Employees were observed operating overhead cranes without proper training. KMA Manufacturing failed to ensure that overhead cranes were not used to lift materials beyond their rated load capacity.

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