this may be of interest to some

i thought this had gotten thrown away many years ago ran across it folded up in a drawer i was cleaning out ,i know of a few individuals that need to take a GOOD LOOK at this ,due to there job title they have lost grip on reality

And that one is old. It's a 'Tier I' version. You ought to see the 'Tier IV'!!!

We got audited by OSHA close to a year ago and are still trying to comply.

Look into "Confined spaces" regulations, and hope to never see one of those people from the Gov'ment that are there to help you!

I worked in a fab shop about 18 years ago and we got a visit from OSHA. The inspector made it down the length of one side of one bay, about 20 feet, right where the panel boxes and one of our shears sat. I forget how many violations he found in that short space but thankfully he decided it was lunch time. One thing he did do with the violations he found was let us know what was on his red hot hit list.

After he left every electrical item in the shop, like welders, fans, saws, etc, etc, were all unplugged and tagged "OUT OF SERVICE". All of our small electric and air tools like grinders, etc were all locked either in our personal tool boxes, or inside unfinished truck bodies. By the time he got back from lunch we were all standing around pushing brooms. He went through the rest of the shop pretty much shaking his head in disbelief because there was nothing he could really his us on since anythingnot in use, and tagged "OUT OF SERVICE" can not be written up for any type of violation. If I remember right the only other thing we got hit on besides the items in the first bay, were the stands the bodies got set on in the paint shop. They were all made of heavy channel iron and heavy wall tube bent into a V shape, and obviously way overkill for the weight they were supporting. Unfortunately they weren't tagged with a weight rating so we got hit for that.

That reminds me of a story when I worked in the shop years ago. We had a 60 in mill (think huge washing machine wringer) to mix raw rubber. It had a safety shut-down bar mounted overhead. The inspector asked the operator what would happen if he got BOTH hands caught in the machine. He came right back, "Oh, I just wait till I'm in bout to my hips and pull the lever with my feet" I don't think we did anything about it.

The first 18 years I was in business was fun and great. The last five was a SOB. Glad I got out when I did.

GBS,

can you email me a copy of this flier please?

Thanks,
John
Highland,IL

email; [email protected] this email works best for pictures for me.

My grandfather owned the neighborhood trashing machine back in my youth in the 1940's and early 50's. Here like probably everywhere all the folks pitched in to help everyone until it was all done moving the trasher from farm to farm. Being an investigative type kid I was all over everything on that trashing machine with all the open belts and chains running everything. If OSHA had exsisted back then the whole world would have most likely starved to death. I never heard of anyone in this area ever getting hurt around a trasher either, Hal.

Me too Hal, as soon as I was big enought to climb the steps on the return elevator. I started pulling a bundle wagon with a B Farmall, so short I would have to slide out on the edge of the seat both hands on the steering wheel over my head to hold the clutch down while they put a shock on the wagon.

John B if you will explain the steps necessary to scan and e-mail a copy to you i'll be glad to try as my understanding of the information highway is more like a dirt road

If you want to, you can right-click on a photo...then from the drop down menu that opens, choose "Save Picture as...". That should open your Picture files as the default. Then just type whatever you want to name it in the box, then click the "Save" button.

Here I saved his pic, clarified and brightened it a little bit and turned it.