Automatic Distributors, Bangor, Maine

The employer is contesting a seven-item serious citation, a single-item other-than-serious citation, and a penalty of $17,255. Serious citation items include 1910.23(c)(1), for failure to guard an open-sided floor or platform, more than four feet above the adjacent floor, with a standard guardrail, 1910.132(d)(1), for failure to assess the workplace to determine if hazards were present, or were likely to be present, that necessitated the use of personal protective equipment, and 1910.176(b), for failure to stack, block, interlock, or limit in height material stored in tiers so that it was stable and secure against ...