Polar express
26.01.10
AUBURN —
More than 100 dignitaries, visitors and Polar Beverages employees noshed on hors d'oeuvres and sipped beer, wine and the company's own soft drinks last night while touring its new 200,000-square-foot distribution facility.
The newly renovated industrial building off Southbridge Street, under a long-term lease from First Highland Management and Development Corp. of Boston, will help the company streamline shipping from its nearby manufacturing facilities on Southbridge and Wolcott streets in Worcester, said Christopher J. Crowley, treasurer and executive vice president of Polar.
“We've moved in and put in racks” for holding products. “We hope to be fully operational in a couple of weeks,” he said, adding that the company has moved temporary shipping operations among leased buildings in Auburn and Worcester.
“Our logistics people have moved large quantities of inventory four times in the last 18 months,”
Source: Worcester Telegram
Grocer Faces $97500 Penalty for Recurring Electrical, Crushing Hazards
26.01.10
Grocer Faces $97,500 Penalty for Recurring Electrical, Crushing Hazards Jan 26, 2010
OSHA has proposed $97,500 in fines against C&S Wholesale Grocers for alleged repeat and serious violations of safety standards following inspections of company warehouses in Windsor Locks and Suffield, Conn. The bulk of the citations and fines address the recurrence of hazards cited during a 2008 OSHA inspection of the Windsor Locks warehouse.
"Unfortunately, several of the hazardous conditions cited in 2008 have returned, again putting workers at risk of serious injuries or death from electrical and crushing hazards," said Robert Kowalski, OSHA's acting area director in Hartford, Conn. "The sizable fines proposed here reflect both the gravity and recurring nature of these hazards. This employer must implement effective and continual corrective action to eliminate these hazards at all its locations, now and in the future."
The current OSHA inspection found damaged storage racks, an ungrounded energized dock light, an energized wall outlet box lacking a knockout plug, and unguarded moving machine parts at Windsor Locks; no auxiliary lighting for powered pallet jacks at Suffield that were operating in areas where the dock lights were not in working order; and exposed energized electrical conductors on loading dock lamps at both locations. Since OSHA cited the company in July 2008 for similar hazards, these latest conditions resulted in the issuance of seven repeat citations with $82,500 in proposed fines.
Source: Occupational Health Safety
