OSHA Inspection: KRENZ KRIST MACHINE INC.

Issued

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3500.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(c)(1): The employer did not administer a continuing, effective hearing conservation program, as described in paragraphs (c) through (o) of this section, whenever employee noise exposures equal or exceed an 8-hour time-weighted average sound level (TWA) of 85 decibels measured on the A scale (slow response) or, equivalently, a dose of fifty percent:    An employee working as a screw machine operator was exposed to continuous noise at 81.8% of the permissible daily noise exposure (8-hour time-weighted average sound level of 90 dBA) during the 462 minute sampling period on 02/08/2012; exposure calculations include a zero increment for the 18 minutes not sampled.

Issued

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of 29 CFR 1910.134, in written or oral format to employees who wear respirators when such use was not required by the employer:    On or about Feburary 1, 2012 the employer did not provide employees with Appendix D of the respiratory standard when voluntarily using N-95 filtering face piece respirators.

Issued

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the appropriate hazard warnings:      On or about February 1, 2012 the employer did not label red buckets containing RC142 Solvent with hazardous warning labels.

Issued

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-03-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:    On or about February 1, 2012 the employer did not train employees on the hazardous chemicals in their work area.