One furniture manufacturer in New York woke up this morning to serious fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after an inspection determined that employees were working around unguarded machinery and exposed saws, among other violations.

OSHA reports that Harden Furniture’s Mill Pond Way site received 25 safety violations from OSHA following an inspection that was part of a national effort to inspect worksites with equipment that has the potential to cause amputations. The statement from OSHA reveals that they did not properly guard saw blades or other machines that employees could have potentially come in contact with. There were missing railings, unguarded platforms and unsafe ladders which could have all led to fall hazards. Also, combustible residue was found around the worksite, exit routes were either obstructed or poorly lit, and there were not adequate safety measures to prevent machinery from starting up unexpectedly.

Harden Furniture possibly faces $106,200 in fines. Christopher Adams, the Syracuse OSHA area director, said that the violations were all common to woodworking and manufacturing shops but they were easily preventable. According to the OSHA investigation, the company lacked safeguards placing employees at risk of amputation, fall, fire, shock, and other machinery hazards the employer should have taken steps to correct.

The company has said they will work with the administration to correct the issues and hope to move forward with a safe work environment. In an article with Furniture Today, Harden president and CEO Greg Harden says they plan to address the issues.

“We have an informal hearing set and will have discussions with them and I am sure we will find a resolution to all the issues,” he said. “We are of the opinion that we don’t have anything that is a significant hazard.”

“We have always enjoyed a very good safety record at Harden Furniture,” he added, noting that in his 40 years with Harden the company has never had any employees experience amputations due to unsafe equipment. “We have a very safe and modern facility, but in all honesty, there is no facility that is 450,000 square feet that isn’t going to have a handful of violations.”