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Waterville manufacturing plant settles OSHA complaint with $220,000 in penalties
The Shyft Duramag LLC, which makes aluminum truck bodies and racks, originally faced penalties for workplace safety violations totaling $394,000.
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A Waterville truck body manufacturing plant has agreed to pay $220,000 in workplace safety penalties to settle complaints by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Formerly known as F3 MFG Inc., The Shyft Group Duramag LLC is located at a 150,000-square-foot facility at 977 West River Road. An Oct. 1 OSHA inspection led to the plant being cited March 29 for three willful and 10 serious violations. According to the settlement agreement, The Shyft Group Duramag LLC agreed to correct its violations and pay the penalty within 15 days of the agreement dated April 22.
Updated April 19
Waterville manufacturing plant faces $394,000 in work-safety penalties
Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found The Shyft Group Duramag LLC violated work-safety protocols.
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The industrial building at 977 West River Road in Waterville. The Shyft Group Duramag LLC in the industrial building is facing about $394,000 in penalties, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration earlier this month.
Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Management at a truck body manufacturing plant in Waterville repeatedly ignored employees’ complaints of hazards and other work-safety protocols, so the company was cited recently with nearly $400,000 in penalties by federal regulators.
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.