OSHA: Lansing Close Abandoned Assurance Rules, ‘Cost a man his life’

NEW ORLEANS — A Lansing, Illinois, tank-cleaning company’s abuse of assurance rules resulted in the
afterlife of a New Orleans agent and the analysis of two others, the Occupational Assurance and Health Administration said Wednesday.

OSHA is proposing $226,000 in fines adjoin Dedicated TCS LLC, which is based in Lansing, and has charwoman accessories in New Orleans and Channahon, Illinois.

“Dedicated TCS continues to avoid acute assurance procedures for alive in bedfast space,” Dorinda Folse, OSHA’s breadth administrator in Baton Rouge, said in a account release. “This is the fourth time OSHA has begin this employer in abuse of federal assurance standards. Sadly, the company’s cessation has amount a man his life.”

An agent in the company’s Lansing office, who would not accord her name or that of anyone abroad who could be quoted, said Dedicated TCS would not be authoritative a comment.

OSHA said the aggregation bootless to analysis the atmosphere central a railroad catchbasin car afore workers went central to apple-pie it endure October, and bootless to accomplish them attach accomplishment curve to their harnesses.

Previous inspections in 2012 and 2014 aswell angry up violations that resulted in penalties of $142,100 and $79,464, respectively, account releases on OSHA’s website show.

In January 2015, Calumet City breadth administrator Kathy Webb said the July 2014 analysis in Channahon was the third time in two years that the bureau begin that Dedicated was assured advisers “to plan with chancy abstracts … in alarming spaces after assurance equipment.”

That inspection, fabricated in acknowledgment to a complaint, begin seven again and two austere violations.

“Dedicated TCS was cited for the aforementioned violations at the Channahon ability in September 2012 and the company’s Lansing ability in November 2012,” the account said.