Enforcement Documents

Office of Worker Safety and Health Enforcement

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2012

• Enforcement Letter issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, related to an Electrical Shock Near Miss Incident that occurred on February 27, 2012, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. December 20, 2012 (WEL-2012-05)
• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, related to a Worker Fall from a Scaffold in the K-Area Complex at the Savannah River Site, November 9, 2012 (WEA-2012-04)

- Press Release

• Enforcement Letter issued to URS E&C Holdings Incorporated, related to Regulatory Issues Associated with a Series of Fall Protection Occurrences at the Separations Process Research Unit Disposition Project between November 2011 and July 2012. November 5, 2012 (WEL-2012-04)
• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Los Alamos National Security, LLC, related to Four Electrical Safety-Related Events that occurred at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 17, 2012 (WEA-2012-03)

- Fact Sheet

• Enforcement Letter issued to On Computer Services, LLC, related to an Employee Electrical Shock that occurred in Technical Area 55 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 23, 2012 (WEL-2012-03)
• Enforcement Letter issued to Controlled Power Company related to an Electrical Shock Near Miss that occurred in the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 23, 2012 (WEL-2012-02)
• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Bechtel National, Incorporated, related to Two Material Handling Events at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project, May 31, 2012 (WEA-2012-02)

- Press Release

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC related to a Heat Stress Event and a Uranium Hexafluoride Release Event at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, May 23, 2012 (WEA-2012-01)

- Press Release

• Enforcement Letter issued to Sandia Corporation, related to five occupational exposure events that occurredat Sandia National Laboratories, March 5, 2012 (WEL-2012-01)

2011

• Enforcement Letter issued to Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, related to a Worker Injury that occurred during Tree Cutting Operations at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 24, 2011 (WEL-2011-01)
• Consent Order issued to CH2M-WG Idaho, LLC related to a Hoisting Incident that occurred at the Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Project at the Idaho National Laboratory (WCO-2011-01), October 6, 2011
• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to URS-Washington Division related to a Hoisting Incident that occurred at the Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Project at the Idaho National Laboratory, October 3, 2011 (WEA-2011-01)

  - Press Release

2010

• Enforcement Letter issued to National Security Technologies, LLC related to potential violations of 10 CFR Part 851, Worker Safety and Health Program, in the areas of Construction Work Planning and Control, Hazard Identification and Abatement, Compliance with National Fire Protection Association code requirements invoked by Part 851, and Worker Training at the Nevada National Security Site, December 23, 2010
• Consent Order issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for deficiencies associated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program, October 29, 2010 (WCO-2010-01)

  - Fact Sheet

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Los Alamos National Security, LLC related to the Electrical Shock that occurred at Technical Area 16 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 18, 2010 (WEA-2010-04)
• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, Inc., related to the Hand Injury Event that occurred during Crane Lubrication at the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site, October 7, 2010 (WEA-2010-06)

  - Press Release

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC related to Nitric Acid Spill Event and an Electrical Arc Flash Injury Event at the Savannah River Site, October 7, 2010 (WEA-2010-05)

  - Press Release

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Washington Closure Hanford, LLC related an Employee Fall at the High Bay Testing Facility (336 Building) at the Hanford Site, August 19, 2010, (WEA-2010-02)

  - Press Release

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC related to an Electrical Arc in Building K-1210 at the East Tennessee Technology Park, July 16, 2010, (WEA-2010-01)

  - Press Release

• Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Sandia Corporation related to the Inadvertent Ignition of a Rocket Motor (WEA-2010-03) June 1, 2010, (WEA-2010-03)

  - Factsheet

• Enforcement Letter issued to Battelle Memorial Institute related to an Unintentional Firearm Discharge at the Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center at the Hanford Site, May 20, 2010

2009

• Consent Order issued to Brookhaven Science Associates related to a Propane Explosion in a Well House at Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 30, 2009 (WCO-2009-01)
• Notice of Violation issued to Stanford University related to a PVC Pipe Explosion at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, (WEA-2009-01)

  - Final - September 3, 2009
  - Preliminary - April 3, 2009
  - Press Release

• Notice of Violation issued to Pacific Underground Construction, Inc., related to a PVC Pipe Explosion at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, (WEA-2009-02)

  - Final - September 3, 2009
  - Preliminary - April 3, 2009
  - Press Release

• Notice of Violation issued to Western Allied Mechanical, Inc., related to a PVC Pipe Explosion at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, (WEA-2009-03)

  - Final - September 3, 2009
  - Preliminary - April 3, 2009
  - Press Release

• Notice of Violation issued to UChicago Argonne, LLC, related to an Arsenic Ampoule Explosion and Overexposure to Carbon Monoxide at Argonne National Laboratory, (WEA-2009-04)

  - Final - August 27, 2009
  - Preliminary - April 30, 2009
  - Press Release

• Enforcement Letter issued to Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, Inc., related to a Form Wood Timber Fire at the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site, July 13, 2009
• Enforcement Letter issued to CH2M-Washington Group Idaho, LLC, for Electrical Safety Deficiencies at the Idaho National Laboratory, May 20, 2009

2008

• Notice of Violation issued to Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, related to a Flume Hood Fire at the Reactor Technology Complex, and the Electrical Shock of two Firefighters responding to a Wildland Fire at the Idaho National Laboratory, (WEA-2008-01)

  - Final - June 20, 2008
  - Preliminary - March 20, 2008
  - Press Release

• Enforcement Letter issued to Los Alamos National Security, LLC related to the Exposure Assessment Program and Longstanding Worker Safety and Health Program Noncompliances at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 16, 2008

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