Safety Report: Covid-19 OSHA Complaint, Carter Associates, 26767 W Chicago Rd, STURGIS, MI, 49091, USA

26767 West Chicago Road, Sturgis, 49091 Michigan, United States

1. Employees have never been offered training, or a written coronavirus preparedness and safety plan. 2. Employees have never been offered proper personal protective equipment, and most often resorted to bringing in their own equipment, including sanitizer and sanitizing supplies. At Plant 1, only 4 paper masks were brought in, (1 time) the entire time the MI State of Emergency has been in place. No instructions were given, and no further personal protective equipment has been offered, with the exception of Clorox wipes that were dropped in the break room (twice in 4 months with no instruction given). Upon confirmation that an employee had tested postive for COVID-19 increased cleaning had not been implemented in Plant 3. 4. Employee health screenings were not performed before, during, or after work, on any day of operation. 5. Social distancing has never been enforced by the employer. 6. Employees are concerned that the owner, a pilot, has been flying back-and-forth to other COVID-19 hotspots in the United States, such as Florida, and Texas, without taking proper precautions upon returning. The employer never wore proper personal protective equipment, or took proper social distancing precautions, and never, once, self-quarantined upon return. 8. There is electrical wiring running from junction boxes, across tables, and sawhorses, and then connected to the laminating machines. 9. When in operation, employees can physically put their hands beneath the light curtain on the die punch press. Two employees are required to run this machine; one to load in front and one to remove parts from the back. Equipment controls are only present on the front side of the press. The employee running the controls on the front side can cycle the machine before the back person's hands have been removed. 10. The pinch roller has wires exposed, and the emergency shutoff button is hanging by wires. An extension cord is running direct power from the outlet to the machine with no safeties in place. There is no safety gate on the back of the pinch roller, and the safety gate on the front does not stop the cycle. The machine will only stop running if it is unplugged. Furthermore, there is no lock-out/tag-out on it.


Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-07-07