CEIBA, PR —
OSHA Inspection: UPR SERVICIO EXTENSION AGRICOLA
Planned inspection · Safety discipline
At a glance
On , OSHA opened a planned safety inspection of UPR SERVICIO EXTENSION AGRICOLA in CENTRO GUBERNAMENTAL DE CEIBA, CEIBA, PR 00735 (NAICS 000000). OSHA activity number 301706750.
OSHA opens inspections for many reasons — routine scheduling under a national or local emphasis program, an employee complaint or referral, or a follow-up after a reported injury. Opening or conducting an inspection is not itself an allegation or a finding that this employer broke any rule; any findings appear as the citations listed below, and citations can be contested, reduced, or withdrawn.
Where did this inspection happen?
- Establishment
- UPR SERVICIO EXTENSION AGRICOLA
- Site address
- CENTRO GUBERNAMENTAL DE CEIBA
- City
- CEIBA
- State
- PR
- ZIP
- 00735
- Mailing
- P.O. BOX 364984, SAN JUAN, PR 00936
What kind of inspection was it?
- Inspection type
- Planned (H)
- Scope
- Complete (A)
- Discipline
- Safety
- Advance notice
- No
- Union status
- N
When did the case open and close?
- Opened
- Closing conference
- Case closed
- Last modified
- Data loaded
Establishment context
- NAICS code
- 000000
- SIC code (legacy)
- 9641
- Employees
- 3
- Ownership type
- C
Citations
1 citation on file for this inspection.
6A0001
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2002
- Abate by
- Jul 25, 2002
General-duty citation text
Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to: Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico: El patrono no proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten causando o que puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados estaban expuestos a: At the Agricultural Extension Office, located on the second level of the Ceiba Government Center: The employer did not develop a trimester total quality maintenance program to set up a good standard operation conditions, filters, condensers and serpentines cleanliness, which caused an increase the relative humidity of the two (2) air conditioned systems, with deterioration of the ventilation ducts and the isolation material which is been expelled through the diffusers; exposing the employees to the hazard of diseases of the upper respiratory tract and hypersensitivity reactions due to the antigenic nature of the isolation material. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is to start doing strategies and get underway engineering controls to replace the ventilating ducts with new isolation material, and to develop and set up and set up a trimester maintenance program. En la Oficina del Servicio de Extension Agricola, localizada en el segundo nivel del Centro de Gobierno de Ceiba: El patrono no desarrollo un programa de mantenimiento de calidad total, trimestral, para establecer un estandard de condiciones de operacion conveniente, limpieza de filtros, condensadores y serpentinas, lo cual causo un incremento en la humedad relativa en los dos (2) sistemas acondicionadores de aire, con deterioro de los conductos de ventilacion y del material aislante, el cual es expelido atraves de los difusores; exponiendo a los empleados al riesgo de enfermedades del tracto respiratorio superior y de reacciones de hipersensitividad debido a la naturaleza antigenica del material aislante. Entre otros metodos, un metodo accesible y aceptable para corregir este riesgo es poner en practica estrategias e iniciar controles de ingenieria para remplazar los conductos de ventilacion con nuevo material aislante, y desarrollar y poner en practica un programa de mantenimiento trimestral.
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Source
This record is reproduced from the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data API (OSHA inspection dataset). The original IMIS detail view is available at OSHA's Establishment Search for activity number 301706750.
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