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OSHA's Top 10: Present and past

OSHA's Top 10: Present and past

OSHA’s most cited violations and largest penalties for FY 2013 – plus a look at data from previous years

December 1, 2013
Kyle W. Morrison
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2013 OSHA's Top 10

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This year’s presentation of the top 10 most frequently cited OSHA violations includes some comparisons with data from previous years.

Due to the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 and ended Oct. 17, finalized data for fiscal year 2013 – covering the period of Oct. 1, 2012, through Sept. 30, 2013 – could not be obtained by the time Safety+Health went to press. Data for FY 2013 presented on these pages was received Sept. 13 and should be considered preliminary.

OSHA's Top 10 for FY 2013: An update

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Jim
December 5, 2013
Way to go O-hio!
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Bob Buckingham
December 12, 2013
Can you provide the top two verses in each chapter where the citation fell in every one of the top ten list? As in 1926.501(C) (3) etc.
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Safety+Health magazine
December 12, 2013
Hi Bob. Although the government shutdown in October prevented OSHA from getting that data to us by the time the December issue of Safety+Health went to press, we’ve got updated information now. Check out Kyle Morrison’s blog for “chapter and verse” data: http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/blogs/1-washington-wire/post/9611-osha-top-10-updated, and look for it in the January issue of S+H.
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James
January 8, 2014
I noticed a possible mistake on page 23 of the January 2014 issue. Number 6 (Powered Industrial Trucks) on the Top 10 most frequently cited standards chart indicates there were 377 violations for 1910.178(I)(6). The table states this standard relates to Avoidance of duplicative training. This should be regarding Certification instead - or the standard number is incorrect. I suppose OSHA may have supplied misinformation...
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Safety+Health
January 13, 2014
Thanks for your sharp eye. The listing is an error on our part. The third most frequently cited section for Powered Industrial Trucks (1910.178) should have read “Certification of trained and evaluated operators (l)(6).” We’ve corrected the information in Kyle W. Morrison’s blogs, and we’ll print a correction in the February issue of S+H. We apologize for the error, and we appreciate that you brought it to our attention.
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