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Cintas: Penalties
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In a historic citation, OSHA has proposed a penalty of $2.78 million for violations in Cintas’s Tulsa facility. This fine is more than four times larger than the previous largest penalty in the service sector for health and safety violations. Safety inspectors reported 46 illegal hazards in the Tulsa laundry—including 42 “willful” violations. At least one citation was for not protecting workers from the equipment involved in Mr. Torres Gomez’s death. Willful violations are committed with “intentional disregard” for the law or “plain indifference” to worker safety.
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OSHA has found over 170 violations of health and safety standards at Cintas since January 1, 2003. Seventy violations were so grave that they could cause “death or serious physical harm.” OSHA assessed nearly $190,000 in initial penalties and found multiple violations in 31 of the 42 inspections in this time period – a 75% percent rate of failure by Cintas.
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The penalties were issued following an investigation into the March 2007 death of Eleazar Torres-Gomez, who was killed when he fell into an industrial dryer at the Cintas laundry facility in Tulsa, Okla.. Torres-Gomez, who was clearing a jam of wet laundry on a conveyor that carries the laundry from the washer into the dryer, was trapped in the operating dryer for 20 minutes while temperatures soared to 300 F.
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