General Motors Corp., CPCG Oklahoma City Plant; 91-2834E & 91-2950; 12/04/07

STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Early on the morning of April 4, 1991, at a General Motors Corporation (“GM”) automobile manufacturing plant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a motor rail conveyor lift table activated, catching the head of millwright Donald Smith, and killing him instantaneously. As a result of this fatality, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) conducted an inspection of the GM plant. On September 26, 1991, nearly six months after the accident, OSHA issued to GM a single willful citation, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (“the Act”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678, alleging fifty-seven violations of the general industry lockout/tagout (“LOTO”) standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1910.147.1