OSHA Inspection: ENVIRONMENTAL DEMOLITION, INC.

Issued

2012-07-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(5): Employee notification of monitoring results. The employer must, as soon as possible but no later than 5 working days after the receipt of the results of any monitoring performed under this section, notify each affected employee of these results either individually in writing or by posting the results in an appropriate location that is accessible to employees.    a)  On or about April 30, 2012, and at times prior, the employer did not provide employees performing Class I asbestos abatement work inside of a regulated area (containment area) with the results of air monitoring which had been conducted on a previous, similar phase in the same building.  These results showed exposures above the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) and should have been used by employees and management in respirator selection.

Issued

2012-07-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(1)(iii): Representative 8-hour TWA employee exposure shall be determined on the basis of one or more samples representing full-shift exposure for employees in each work area. Representative 30-minute short-term employee exposures shall be determined on the basis of one or more samples representing 30 minute exposures associated with operations that are most likely to produce exposures above the excursion limit for employees in each work area.      a)  On or about April 30, 2012, and at times prior, the employer did not accurately determine the 8-hour TWA asbestos exposure for employees that performed Class I asbestos abatement work.  An adequate number of samples were not collected to make 8-hour TWA determinations.