OSHA Inspection: WILKINSON VINTAGE HILLSIDE SENIOR HOUSING, LLC

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(d)(2)(i):  Engineering and work practice controls were not used to eliminate or minimize employees exposure:    a. Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees tested resident(s) blood glucose levels via Liberty PerfectPoint Lancets and administered insulin injections via Levemir FlexPen and the employer did not ensure that these devices were engineered with sharps injury protection, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(d)(2)(vii)(A):  Contaminated needles and other contaminated sharps were bent, recapped, or removed:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees administered resident(s) insulin injections via BD Safety-Lok Syringes and bent the contaminated needles prior to disposal, on or about 03/28/2012.    b) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees tested resident(s) blood glucose levels via Liberty PerfectPoint Lancets with various lancing devices and removed the contaminated lancets from the lancing devices for disposal, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2100.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(ii)(A):  The employer did not ensure that training was provided to employees with occupational exposure at the time of initial assignment to tasks where occupational exposure might take place:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees with occupational exposure to blood and/or other potentially infectious materials were not provided with bloodborne pathogens training prior to their first anticipated exposure, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(F):  The bloodborne pathogens training program did not contain an explanation of the use or limitations of methods that would prevent or reduce exposure including appropriate engineering controls, work practices or personal protective equipment:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees administered insulin injections via BD Safety-Lok Syringes and were not trained to properly use this safety engineered device to fully retract the needle into the sleeve until it locked in the protected position, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2100.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1):  The employer did not have a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical which they used:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees worked with hazardous and corrosive chemicals, including, but not limited to Ecolab Ultra San, and the employer did not maintain the material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 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:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees worked with hazardous and corrosive chemicals, including, but not limited to Ecolab Ultra San, and the employer did not provide the employees with hazard communication training, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(ii)(B):     The Exposure Control Plan did not contain the schedule and method of implementation for paragraphs (d) Methods of Compliance, (e) HIV and HBV Research Laboratories and Production Facilities, (f) Hepatitis B Vaccination and Post-Exposure Evaluation and Follow-up, (g) Communication of Hazards to Employees, and (h) Recordkeeping, of this standard    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  The employer's exposure control plan for bloodborne pathogens did not include information pertaining to the following topics:  sharps injury log, engineering controls for the prevention of contaminated sharps injuries, and an equivalent statement that employees will be trained on the use and limitations of methods that will prevent or reduce exposure including appropriate engineering controls.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(2)(iv):  The employer did not ensure that employees who declined to accept the hepatitis B vaccination offered by the employer signed the statement in appendix A:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  Employees who declined to accept the Hepatitis B vaccination series were not made to sign the declination form provided in appendix A of this standard, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Issued

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(h)(5)(i):     The employer did not establish and maintain a sharps injury log for the recording of percutaneous injuries from contaminated sharps:    a) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  On 09/22/2010, an employee sustained a needlestick injury from a contaminated insulin syringe and the employer failed to document the exposure on a sharps injury log, on or about 03/28/2012.    b) Hillside Assisted Living Community:  On 11/14/2011, an employee sustained a needlestick injury from a contaminated lancet and the employer failed to document the exposure on a sharps injury log, on or about 03/28/2012.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED