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OSHA Finalizes New Rules For Tracking Workplace plate 3/7/14 3:26 PM Page 1 Injuries And Illnesses On May 12, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the final regulations for the Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses. The first two parts of this rule become effective on Aug. 10. Part one requires employers to inform their employees how to report illnesses and injuries. Most gins should already have a good practice in place to meet this requirement. Part two requires employers to inform their employees of their rights to report injuries and that they cannot be discriminated against for reporting. OSHA has issued a poster that should help gins meet this requirement. The third part of the rule is much more complicated and will not begin until 2017. This part requires all employers with more than 250 employees, and some employers with 20250 employees, to submit illness and injury data to OSHA each year through a portal on its website. The rules are different for larger employers. For employers with 20-250 employees, only some groups will have to
report. One of these is an employer with a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code beginning with 11, which includes cotton gins. Under this rule, gins must submit the information from the OSHA 300A form. This is summary data only and is the form that all employers must currently post on Feb. 1 each year. OSHA will develop a website that allows each employer to manually enter this data into the OSHA system. OSHA will then post the data publicly in some manner. The 2016 data will be posted by July 1, 2017. Similarly, the deadline for 2018 is also July 1. After that, the reports will be due on March 2 each year. In the preamble to the rule, OSHA describes this rule as an effort to “nudge” employers to abate hazards by applying
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On The Web For more on these changes from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration, visit www.osha.gov.
behavioral science in the context of making all injuries at a facility public and basically “shaming” employers into preventing accidents. The idea is that OSHA will publish all the data entered by employers, so that perspective employees and customers can see what the injury data looks like at any business. Injury Reporting Scrutinized OSHA also states that it will watch more closely for evidence that an employer is discouraging workers from reporting injuries. Two examples that it gives of policies that would discourage reporting are certain drug testing policies and incentive programs. OSHA states that a policy of drug testing all workers after an injury could be considered discriminatory. The examples it gives include drug testing after a bee sting or a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injury. We need to be careful in this area, although OSHA cannot supersede state workers compensation rules. Incentive and bonus programs must also be done carefully so that they do not discourage reporting. OSHA particularly does not like programs that give a bonus based on no reported injuries for a period of time. It says these programs specifically put pressure on workers not to report injuries. This rule does not look particularly difficult to meet, but on the other hand, it gives OSHA another excuse for coming into a workplace without any employee complaint or incident. The cotton ginning industry and many other industry groups opposed this rule for several reasons. As with many other recent OSHA regulations, industry concerns were largely ignored. Kelley Green, technical services director of the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association, contributed this article. Contact him at 512-476-8388 or kelley@tcga.org.
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Cotton’s Calendar 2016 July 31-Aug. 3: Southern Southeastern Board Meeting, Amelia Island, Fla. Aug. 2-4: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Meeting, Scottsdale, Ariz. Aug. 17: PCCA Board Meeting and Delegate Body Meeting, Lubbock, Texas. Aug. 24-26: NCC Board Meeting, Memphis, Tenn. Sept. 21: Staplcotn Annual Meeting, Greenwood, Miss. Sept. 26: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Jan. 18-21: Southern Southeastern Annual Meeting, Charlotte, N.C. Feb. 10-12: NCC Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas. Feb. 28-March 1: Cotton Board Meeting. March 3-4: Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, Memphis, Tenn. April 6-7: Texas Cotton Ginners Association Trade Show, Lubbock, Texas. June 6-8: Cotton Incorporated Meeting. July 10-12: Southern Southeastern Mid-Year Board Meeting, Marriott Grand Dunes, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Aug. 8-10: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Joint Meeting. Aug. 23-25: NCC Board Meeting, Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tenn. Dec. 5-7: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Joint Meeting.
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2018 Jan. 3-5: Beltwide Cotton Conferences, San Antonio, Texas. Feb. 9-11: NCC Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas. April 5-6: Texas Cotton Ginners Association Trade Show, Lubbock, Texas.
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Lummus Corporation has available the following quality, high-capacity used gin machinery. All machinery is offered “as is, where is” (unless noted otherwise) and is subject to prior sale. “As is” machinery can be repaired/reconditioned for an additional charge. 1 – Consolidated 96” R-5000 Stick Machine* 2 – Consolidated 120” R-5000 Stick Machines* 1 – Lummus 60” overshot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot MC Battery Condenser* 1 – 1997 model Ginning/Lint Cleaning Line, consisting of a 96” wide Model 700TM Feeder, 170-Saw ImperialTM III Gin, Super-Jet® Lint Cleaner, and Model 108 Lint Cleaner 1 – Belt-Wide 75-HP Flooded-Suction Hydraulic Booster Pumping Unit 1 – Lubbock Electric Hydraulic Pumping Unit for Gin Dor-Les® or E.E. Dor-Les® Press (single reservoir with multiple motor/pump groups) 1 – Lummus Bale Handling System for up-packing press 1 – Lot, miscellaneous Burner and Moisture Unit components (contact us for details) * - does not include any Steel Supports or Platforms
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1 - Complete 2/141 Gin Plant consisting of: Unloading System with 15” diameter single-lane Powered Telescope, Rock Trap with Trash Vacuum, 72” Unloading Separator/Feed Control with Vacuum Wheel and Flight-Saver, and No. 50 Unloading Fan; First-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Horn 3-Saw Stick Machine (with double 96” x 24” Vacuum Wheels), Second-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Continental 2-Saw Stick Machine; Distribution/Overflow System with Continental 2-Stand Conveyor Distributor and 72” Automatic Overflow Hopper with Breaker Cylinder; Feeding/Ginning System with two (2) Continental 141-Saw Gins (converted) and 96” Comet Supreme Feeders; Lint Cleaning System with four (4) 66” wide Continental 16-D Lint Cleaners (two tandem arrangements); Condensing/Pressing System with 50” Moss Battery Condenser, 20” x 54” Continental Bespress, and Bale Handling System with Bale Push Cart (manual) and Bagger (powered); five (5) Smith 35/40 Centrifugal Fans (only one season of operation)