OSHA Cites Liberty, TX Company After Workers Hurt

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Boomerang Tube LLC for six willful, nine serious and one other-than-serious violation at the company's facility in Liberty, Texas where three employees were seriously injured within a period of five months. Proposed penalties total $468,000. According to OSHA press-releases, the employer jeopardized the safety of its employees by failing to follow OSHA's safety standards for energy control procedures and machine guarding. OSHA's Houston North Area Office began an investigation June 14 in response to a complaint from one of the injured employees that workers faced unsafe conditions while operating cranes and slitter, rolling and thread machines; performing service and maintenance work; and stacking and loading pipes in the yard and on trucks at the company's work site on Farm to Market 3361. In April, an employee was injured from becoming caught in an operating machine and in May, a second employee was struck by a piece of steel and knocked into a 5-foot-10-inch concrete pit. In September, another employee was injured from becoming caught in machinery. All three had to be flown to a local hospital due to the severity of their injuries.

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