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Stone Products Firm Charged with Failing to Abate Hazcom Hazards

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OSHA has cited Designer's Stone Co. of Watertown, Mass., for alleged repeat and serious safety and health violations and failing to correct hazards cited during a previous agency inspection. A total of $40,600 in fines is proposed.

These latest citations and fines result from an OSHA inspection opened Feb. 13 to verify correction of hazards the agency cited in August 2007. The follow-up inspection found that four of 17 cited conditions remained uncorrected. These included inadequate or incomplete hazard communication training for employees working with chemicals, flammables and silica produced during stone grinding; unlabeled containers of hazardous chemicals; ungrounded fans; and unmarked circuit breakers. These conditions resulted in the issuance of four failure-to-abate notices carrying $21,000 in fines.

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