OSHA fines Ruger $255K

The timing seems to be in line with the increase in gun demand and the ramping up of production, hiring new inexperienced help who are likely to get hurt. Someone or a few people got hurt so OSHA stops by.

Fines for not having guards on your machinery, or not using those guards is an easy one for OSHA to hit you with.

We have a machine down now for a lack of guards. The machine is old enough it did not come with one, nor is one available from the manufacturer. We have to custom fab a guard for this machine.

But someone did stick their hand in and got hurt from that.
 
we have a fringe in out area and they fined us $4500 for having it on an extention cord and not pluged right in the wall. Allot of the fines where for the firing range, people being exposed to lead.
 
My wife works there for over 6 yrs. The new owners, in their mad dash for profits have institued "lean machining" where one person runs the machines that several people used to. Concern for the employees is non-exsitant, and saftey is ONLY thought about in terms of keeping production up. You are expected to work until you drop, and then work somemore. Don't take any time off, even if you use earned vacation time. People have been fired for refusing to workmore than 10 hours a day when asked to do so AS they were punching out. OSHA needs a permenant prescsnein the plat.
- James, Claremont
You can spot the labor organizer a mile away. I've dealt with a**h*** like him that want to be paid one hour of work while
doing nothing 50 out of those 60 minutes.
 
OSHA is awful. They have too much authority, & are difficult to fight. They can fine your company for not covering a trash can that contains food in it, because it's theoretically a health hazard. [rolleyes]

It seems that common sense is lost.
 
With a good lawyer, fines will be reduced to 1/3 or less. Wait and see. Been there; done that as a consultant to help an industry in trouble with OSHA.
 
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