Louisiana-Pacific Wins Dismissal of OSHA Worker Safety Charge

Worker safety allegations against Louisiana-Pacific Corp. have been vacated by a federal judicial panel.

The panel in a final order released Friday found that Louisiana-Pacific didn’t violate Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements for protecting workers from moving machine parts.

Also dismissed by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission was a proposed $13,653 fine.

The case stems from a May 2021 accident at Louisiana-Pacific’s Thomasville, Ala., plant that manufactures wooden panels.

A worker told OSHA he inadvertently put his right hand inside a machine opening while cleaning up wooden debris that had fallen from a conveyor belt onto the ...