THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS INSPECTION HISTORY EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR STANDARDS Shop The Department of Labor Standards conducted a safety inspection at a state agency in November, 2015. The following conditions were found which required corrective action. Use this “Inspection History” as a self-audit checklist in your own Woodworking Shop. Per 454 CMR 25.00, executive branch state agencies are required to comply with OSHA standards. Condition Observed Photo OSHA Regulation Corrective Action Band : The machine guard 29 CFR 1910.213(i)(1) Repair or replace the closure could become loose during Woodworking machinery mechanism. Ensure that a operation because the closure machine guard covers unused mechanism was broken. portions of the blade. Ensure the guard cannot unintentionally open during operation.

Belt : Machine guard is 29 CFR 1910.213(p)(4) Provide a guard/cover to enclose missing. Pinch points are exposed. Woodworking machinery the nip points, and unused portions of the sanding belt.

Circular hand-fed rip saw: Machine 29 CFR 1910.213(c)(1) Provide a guard that covers the guard was not aligned to cover the Woodworking machinery part of the saw blade projecting blade. The had been moved above the table and above the in the past year, and the guard was material being cut; adjusts itself not re-aligned to cover the blade. to the thickness of the stock; and rides on the material being cut.

Circular hand-fed rip saw: A spreader 29 CFR 1910.213(c)(2) Install a spreader to prevent was not used on a hand‑fed circular Woodworking machinery kickbacks, and to keep chips and rip saw to prevent material from slivers away from the back of squeezing the saw blade or being the saw blade, where they might thrown back on the operator. get caught by the saw teeth and thrown toward the operator. Condition Observed Photo OSHA Regulation Corrective Action Circular hand-fed rip saw: 29 CFR 1910.219(c)(3) Install an anti-kickback device for Anti-kickback fingers or dogs were Mechanical power- the saw operator during ripping not located to oppose the thrust or transmission operation. The claw-like gripping tendency of a hand‑fed circular rip action of an anti-kickback device saw to pick up the material or throw it can reduce the potential for stock back toward the operator. being thrown back at the operator. Press: An exposed part of 29 CFR 1910.219(c)(3) Enclose the rotating shaft with rotating vertical shafting was not Mechanical power- a self-adjusting guard or a protected by a guard. transmission non-rotating shaft. Also enclose the drill bit chuck attached to shaft.

Jointer: A hand‑fed with a 29 CFR 1910.213(j)(3) Repair the existing guard so that horizontal cutting had a broken guard. Woodworking machinery it automatically retracts to adjust The Spring was broken so it no longer to cover the unused portion of the retracted to cover the revolving revolving knives knives.

Portable Grinder An wheel 29 CFR 1910.243(c)(3) Provide a safety guard so that used on a vertical portable grinder Guarding of portable the maximum exposed angle is (right angle head grinder) was not powered 180o. The intent of the standard provided with a safety guard. is to ensure that pieces of a disintegrating wheel will be deflected away from the operator.

Push sticks: Only one push stick 29 CFR 1910.213(s)(9) Provide push sticks or push blocks was available. Different sizes Woodworking machinery at the work place in the several of push sticks/push blocks are sizes and types suitable for the required dependent upon size work to be done. of to be cut.