OSHA Releases Top 10 Citations for 2010

OSHA’s Director of Enforcement Programs, Thomas Galassi, recently released the top 10 violations for the 2010 fiscal year.

OSHA’s top 10 list of most cited violations for FY 2010 are:

  1. Scaffolding, General
  2. Fall Protection
  3. Hazard Communication
  4. Respiratory Protection
  5. Ladders
  6. Lockout/Tagout
  7. Electrical, Wiring Methods
  8. Powered Industrial Trucks
  9. Electrical, General
  10. Machine Guarding

According to Galassi, OSHA issued 94,000 violations during FY 2010. The top 10 violations accounted for 48% to 49% of the total violations issued. ◆

Officers

President: john malinowski leon’s mfg. co. inc.

1st Vp: sandy kimball bigham brothers, inc.

2nd vp: Andrew Cummings T. G. Schmeiser Co. Inc.

Treasurer: robert Atkinson w & A Mfg. Co.

Secretary: Marc Mcconnell Art’s-way Mfg. Co.

Ex Officio: John McCoy Orthman Mfg. inc.

Board Of Directors

Tony Bakker Monosem inc.

Mark Core Vermeer Corporation

Jan Faassen GKN OffHighway

Paul Jeffrey MacDon Industries Ltd.

Donny Jones Belltec Industries, Inc.

Richard Kirby Kirby MFg Inc.

Mike Kloster Worksaver Inc.

Stanley McFarlane McFarlane Mfg. Co.

Arlon Rahn A & R Marketing

Jacqueline Vassar Vassar MFg Co.

Staff

Vernon Schmidt Executive VP

Hannah Hamontree Dir. Memb. Services

Tricia Kidd Administrative Assistant

Cathy Dukleth Administrative Assistant

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