The company is facing $148,500 in proposed penalties for several alleged willful violations, including fall hazards, multiple respiratory protection program violations, and confined space program violations. Alleged serious violations cited by OSHA address issues such as noise monitoring, smoking in a spray room, no lockout/tagout training, unsafe stacking of steel tanks, hazardous compressed gas cylinder placement, excessive toluene exposures and no chemical hazard communication training.

[Mid-South Steel Products Inc., Cape Girardeau, MO. Release Number OSHA 07-1541-KAN, Oct. 11, 2007]