OSHA Inspection: ARTWEARS LINCOLN INC.

Issued

Apr 20, 2012

Abate by

May 5, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1):     All places of employment, passageways, storerooms, and service rooms shall be kept clean and orderlyand in a sanitary condition.    The employer is failing to protect employees from potential respiratory and fire hazards.  This was most recently evident during the inspection of the facility located at 7400 Crosslake Lane Ste 1, Lincoln, NE 68516, where the employer has  employees working in the main production area screen printing garments without having cleaned the ventilation system thus resulting in excessive buildup of dust, lint and residual adhesive spray.

Issued

Apr 20, 2012

Abate by

Jun 8, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1):     Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy controlprocedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine orequipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall beisolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.    The employer is failing to develop an adequate written Lockout and Tag Out program.  This was most recently evident during the inspection of the facility located at 7400 Crosslake Lane Ste 1, Lincoln, NE 68516, where the employer has employees operating the M&R Radicure Electric Dryer without having developed and implemented an adequate Lockout and Tag Out program.  Program deficiencies include but not limited to:    i.  Failure to identify the companys training method, personnel to be trained and training plan, specifically who are the authorized, affected and all others.    ii.  Failure to identify the companys written specific procedure necessary to isolate the hazardous energy sources on the M&R Radicure Electric Dryer.    iii.  Failure to identify the companys method of conducting annual periodic reviews of written specific procedure for the M&R Radicure Electric Dryer.    iv.  Failure to identify the employer/subcontractor agreement on the use of Lockout/Tag Out programs in the event that this company doesnt perform maintenance on the M&R Radicure Electric Dryer.

Issued

Apr 20, 2012

Abate by

Jun 8, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i):     The employer shall provide training to ensure that the purpose and function of the energy controlprogram are understood by employees and that the knowledge and skills required for the safe application, usage, and removal of the energy controls areacquired by employees.  The training shall include the following:    The employer failed to provide employees with training applicable to the isolation of hazardous stored energy through lockout and tag out.  This was most recently evident during the inspection of the facility located at 7400 Crosslake Lane Ste 1, Lincoln, NE 68516, where the employer has untrained employees operating the M&R Radicure Electric Dryer.

Issued

Apr 20, 2012

Abate by

May 5, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(b)(2):     PUll boxes, juntion boxes, and fittings were not provided with convers approved for the purpose:    The employer is failing to protect employees from potential electrical hazards associated with failing ensure that outlet boxes are covered and not left open to exposure.  This was most recently evident during the inspection of the facility located at 7400 Crosslake Lane Ste 1, Lincoln, NE 68516, where the employer has employees using an outlet with a damaged cover to provide power to the scale used in measuring the amounts of ink necessary in the printing process.

Issued

Apr 20, 2012

Abate by

Jun 30, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1):     Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals intheir work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new physical or health hazard the employees have not previously been trainedabout is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability,carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and material safety datasheets.    The employer is failing to provide employees with HAZCOM training.  This was most recently evident during the inspection of the facility located at 7400 Crosslake Lane Ste 1, Lincoln, NE 68516, where the employer has untrained employees using various chemicals in the screen printing process.  Instances include but are not limited to:    i.   Inadequately trained employees using CAMIE 375 Screen Printer Flash Cure.    ii.   Inadequately trained employees using CAMIE 380 Screen Printers Adhesive, a spray adhesive that is used to adhere the shirt to the board during the printing process.