The final tally: OSHA’s top 10 violations for 2014
The final numbers for OSHA’s annual list of top violations are in. Can you guess the top 10 safety hazards that OSHA cited for fiscal year 2014?
OSHA revealed a preliminary top 10 list earlier this year at the annual National Safety Council (NSC) 2014 Congress and Expo in San Diego. But since then, a few violations have traded slots on the list, and the number of violations has increased.
Notable changes in this most recent lineup are that lockout/tagout has moved down from the number 5 spot to number 7, ladder hazards have moved up from number 8 to number 5, and wiring methods have moved down one slot from number 7 to number 8.
Here’s the final list of OSHA’s most popular cited safety standards, along with the number of issued violations, from October 2013 to September 2014:
- Fall protection — 7,120
- Hazard communication — 5,461
- Scaffolding — 4,543
- Respiratory protection — 3,229
- Ladders — 2,776
- Powered industrial trucks — 2,770
- Lockout/tagout — 2,707
- Wiring methods — 2,447
- Machine guarding — 2,162, and
- Electrical — General Requirements — 2,080.