The Shyft Group faces fines for not addressing employees complaints about serious hazards.
By Shereen Hashem
Apr 09, 2021
Reports of fall and noise hazards were continuously ignored for a Waterville auto body manufacturing plant in Augusta, Maine after repeatedly informing management until OSHA intervened. The administration opened an inspection on October 1, 2020 in response to a complaint, according to a press release.
Now, the Shyft Group Duramag LLC, or FR MFG Inc. faces $393,992 in fines for not addressing these hazards that placed employees at risk. OSHA cited the plant for two willful as well as 10 serious violations. Our inspectors found plant employees without fall protection working atop truck bodies and others exposed to excess noise levels while steam cleaning, said OSHA Area Director David McGuan in Augusta, Maine. Management s knowledge of these hazards and their failure to correct them led us to cite these conditions as willful violations.