The U.S. Division of Labor’s Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) cited Holmes Meals, saying it violated federal workforce security laws.
After a scheduled inspection on March 15 on the Holmes Meals poultry plant in Nixon, Texas, OSHA investigators cited the corporate for 5 critical violations that relate to the next alleged offenses:
- Failure to supply required eye safety.
- Failure to develop procedures to lock out and tag out machines to forestall sudden startups.
- Failure to protect rotating shafts, chains and sprockets.
- Exposing line staff to ergonomic hazards.
“Holmes Meals uncovered staff whose jobs require repetitive motions and lifting duties to acknowledged office hazards that may trigger long-term accidents,” stated OSHA Space Director Monica Munoz. “The corporate should observe federal necessities to guard staff, together with these whose work is crucial to the area’s meals provide. We’ll maintain employers accountable once they fail to fulfill their authorized obligations.”
OSHA has proposed $60,269 in penalties for these alleged violations. The corporate has 15 enterprise days from receipt of the citations and penalties to conform, request a casual convention with OSHA’s space director or contest the findings earlier than the unbiased Occupational Security and Well being Overview Fee.
Based in 1925 and headquartered in Nixon, Holmes Meals is the 24th largest poultry producer in the USA, having processed 2.8 million kilos of ready-to-cook rooster on a weekly foundation and employs about 600 individuals, in accordance to the WATTPoultry.com High Poultry Corporations Database.
