OSHA Inspection: SOUTH SHORE PLATING COMPANY, INC

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1020.00 · Current $510.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative:    Shop: A lockout/tagout program was not develeoped and implemented where maintenance and job set ups were performed on machinery such as buffing equipment:

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.151(c): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:    Shop: The eyewash was not operational due to a block in plumbing preventing water flow.  Corrossive chemicals such as sulfuric and hydrochloric acids were used in plating operations

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1): Machine guarding was not provided to protect operator(s) and other employees from hazard(s) created by rotating parts:    Shop: Rotating shafts and end bolts on the buffing/polsihing machines were not guarded.

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1020.00 · Current $510.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(1): The employer with a workplace or work operation covered by this standard did not determine the 8-hour time-weighted average exposure for each employee exposed to chromium (VI):    Shop:  Air monitoring was not conducted to determine potential airborne exposure to hexavlanet chrome during plating operations.

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f) labeling, (g) material safety data sheets,and (h) training will be met:    Shop: A written hazard communication program was not developed and implemented where hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, chromium, nickel , potassium copper cyanide were used during electroplating operations.

Issued

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(i): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the identity of the hazardous chemical(s) contained therein:    Shop: All plating tanks containing hazardous chemicals including sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, nickel, cyanide, hexavalent chrome, brass, and soaps  were not labeled as to their identity.

Issued

2013-03-13 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:    Shop: All plating tanks containing hazardous chemicals including acids, nickel, cyanide, hexavalent chrome, and soaps  were not labeled with health hazard warnings wihich would include target organ effects.