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OSHA Proposes $191,700 in
Penalties for Construction Company's Failure to Record Injuries
The U.S. Labor Department's
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited
a Massachusetts based construction company, and proposed penalties
totaling $191,700, for failing to properly record injuries and
illnesses at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear plants
in Tennessee and Alabama.
"OSHA's investigation
revealed that the construction company failed to record a total
of 84 incidents involving company maintenance worker injuries
at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Athens, Ala.; Sequoyah Nuclear
Plant, Soddy Daisy, Tenn.; and Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Spring
City, Tenn.," said Cindy Coe Laseter, OSHA's regional administrator
in Atlanta.
Officials from the TVA, which
operates the three facilities, contacted OSHA when they noticed
discrepancies on the OSHA 300 Log used to record work-related
injuries and illnesses. OSHA regulations require employers, with
few exemptions, to maintain accurate records of fatalities, injuries
and illnesses and post a summary of these incidents each year
at job sites.
The company received one
willful citation, with a proposed penalty of $63,000, for failing
to record injuries and illnesses in 2004, 2005 and 2006 at the
Browns Ferry site and $1,800 in proposed penalties for failing
to accurately record injuries that resulted in days away from
work and restricted work activity at the facility.
OSHA also proposed a $63,000
penalty for similar willful recordkeeping violations for the
years 2004, 2005 and 2006 at Sequoyah and 2004 and 2006 at Watts
Bar. In addition, the Watts Bar plant received a proposed $900
penalty for failing to record an injury that resulted in restricted
work activity.
Data from the OSHA 300 Log
is used to identify workplace safety and health problems and
helps the agency to implement programs to abate the associated
hazards. The information is also used for the Department of Labor's
Bureau of Labor Statistics' Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries
and Illnesses, the nation's primary source of occupational injury
and illness data.
The company has 15 working
days to contest the citations and proposed penalties before the
independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
The sites were inspected by staff from OSHA's area offices in
Birmingham, Ala., Room 1050, 950 22nd St., North; phone: (205)
731-1534; and Nashville, Tenn., Suite C-205, 2002 Richard Jones
Rd., phone: (615) 781-5423.
Source: OSHA News Release 1/22/07
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