The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Missouri company for 55 health and safety violations after a sawmill worker was killed after getting pulled into machinery.
OSHA on Thursday announced the citations and $346,954 in proposed penalties against Don Gibson, doing business as Missouri Mats, following the Jan. 11 fatality at a sawmill in Brashear, Missouri.
OSHA said the company failed to notify regulators about the incident in a timely manner, which delayed the workplace safety investigation. Investigators subsequently ordered the company to take steps to protect workers against amputation hazards, but inspectors in March found it had failed to implement proper safety measures, the agency said.
OSHA cited the company for two willful, 53 serious and two other-than-serious safety and health violations and placed it in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program. The company has 15 days to contest the citations.
OSHA said it cited the company in 2012 after a fatality at a Missouri logging site.