May 22, 2015 Alfa Laval faces nearly $500K in fines for Oklahoma safety violations OSHA finds 50 violations at Broken Arrow facility BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – Alfa Laval Inc. Faces $477,900 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor inspections discovered dozens of serious workplace safety violations, five of which were identified in previous inspections. Federal investigators found five repeated and 45 serious violations on a range of health and safety issues at the company's Broken Arrow facility, including, a lack of respiratory equipment and training for hazardous chemicals. Alfa Laval employs about 220 people there.
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Alfa Laval also had no procedure to, and failed to maintain written fire protection and emergency management plans. OSHA levied a $218,500 penalty for the repeated violations that it had cited the employer for in 2010 and 2011, and an additional $259,400 for the serious violations. OSHA has placed the company in its. 'Alfa Laval has no excuse for repeatedly exposing workers to dangerous conditions,' said David Bates, OSHA's area director in Oklahoma City. 'A continued failure by the company to make needed changes to its safety program may well result in severe injuries or worse.' The citations can be viewed at. and here.
A global provider of heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling products, Alfa Laval employs about 18,000 employees at locations in Sweden, Denmark, India, China, the U.S. The company serves industries that produce food and beverages, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol.
Alfa Laval's products are also used in power plants, aboard ships, oil and gas exploration, in the mechanical engineering industry, in the mining industry and for wastewater treatment, as well as for comfort climate and refrigeration applications. It reported annual sales of $4.2 billion in 2014. The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and proposed penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director in Oklahoma City, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Oklahoma City Area Office at 405-278-9560. Under the, OSHA's role is to promote safe and healthful working conditions for America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, outreach and education. For more information, visit.
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Old ALFA-LAVAL logo to be put on farms where their equipment was used. Alfa Laval AB is a, founded in 1883. The company, which started in the separation of, now deals in the production of specialized products and for. The products are used to heat, cool, separate and transport such products as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals. Alfa Laval is headquartered in Lund, and has in over 35 countries around the world, including, and the. In 2016, Alfa Laval had a global workforce of 17,309 employees and revenue of $4,715.96 million.
Alfa Laval is a company that focuses on the large-scale operations, such as the Marine, Energy, and Food industries. As well as selling equipment, Alfa Laval contracts out to provide individual to the demands of, in the form of '. Contents. Alfa Laval in the Maritime Industry Alfa Laval is known in the as producer of maritime equipment. Alfa Laval manufactures, oil separators, and all other hardware vital to the operation of the a ship's. As of 2011, Alfa Laval consolidated its Marine, Offshore, and Diesel divisions into one, Marine & Diesel, division in an effort to simplify logistics and administration of its marine wing. Alfa Laval introduced PureBallast in 2006, which is the world's first commercially sold water treatment system for the Maritime Industry.
It also is the first chemical-free to treatment. It works by filtering the water inside the though an enhanced AOT process. The process of PureBallast creates free radicals that destroy the membrane of biological contaminates, such as. Alfa Laval has updated its PureBallast system to Pure Ballast 3.0 that adheres to the new IMO regulations., the largest shipbuilding nation in the world, has placed orders for the new ballast system. History The company was founded in 1883 as AB Separator and in 1938 produced its first heat exchanger. The name Alfa-Laval was introduced in 1963, spelled with a hyphen until 1993.
(The 'Alfa' is derived from the, or Alfa-disc, an invention by Clemens von Bechtolsheim that was acquired by Separator in 1889. ) In 1991 Alfa Laval was acquired by and between 1993 and 2000 Alfa Laval was a part of the Group. In 1993, Alfa Laval Agri, a company producing dairy farming equipment, was split from Alfa Laval. When Alfa Laval was sold, Alfa Laval Agri remained a part of the Tetra Laval Group and was renamed, after the company's founder. Alfa Laval now divides its operations between equipment (capital sales) and process technology (contracts with longer duration).
Recently, Alfa Laval has been working towards the consolidation of its manufacturing of. By 2014, Alfa Laval should have all its manufacturing of boilers located in,. The boiler manufacturing plant in, have been shut down in 2013 due to production consolidation. As of 2012, Alfa Laval has a total of 32 manufacturing facilities: 15 of which are located in, nine in, six in the, and two in. In 1983, Alfa Laval entered the by offering separators that can isolate genetic samples. In midsummer 2008 there was a theft at the facility at Lund where 80 metric ton of titanium were stolen in two trailers that were driven to Poland. International operations.
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