OSHA Inspection: COUNTY CONCRETE CORP.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $4,410 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(1): The employer did not evaluate the workplace to determine if any spaces were permit-required confined spaces:     a) East Orange plant     Employees entered the plant mixer without knowledge that equipment was a permit-required confined space. The employer did not conduct an evaluation to identify confined spaces.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $4,410 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(2): The employer did not inform exposed employees, by posting danger signs or by any other equally effective means, of the existence and location of and the danger posed by the permit spaces;     a) East Orange plant     Employees entered the plant mixer without receiving information of the dangers of the permit-required confined space.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $4,410 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4): When the employer decided that its employees would enter permit spaces, the employer did not develop and implement a written permit space entry program that complied with 29 CFR 1910.146:     a) East Orange plant     The employer permitted employees to enter the plant mixer, a permit-required confined space, without developing & implementing a written permit space entry program.      Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $4,410 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(i): The employer did not conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirement of this standard were being followed:     a) East Orange plant       The employer did not conduct annual periodic inspections of the facility's energy control procedures. The last periodic inspection of lockout procedures was conducted in 2010.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $6,300 · Current $4,410 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i): The employer did not provide training to ensure that the purpose and function of the energy control program are understood by employees and that the knowledge and skills required for the safe application, usage, and removal of the energy controls are acquired by employees:     a) East Orange plant     Employees who performed maintenance applied locks to plant equipment, including but limited to plant mixer, without training.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Oct 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $63,000 · Current $44,100 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 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:     a) East Orange Plant     Employees conducted service/maintenance on plant equipment, including but not limited to the plant mixer and conveyors, without the employer establishing an energy control program.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.

Issued

Sep 30, 2013

Abate by

Nov 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:     a) East Orange plant     Employees conducted service and maintenance to plant equipment, including but not limited to plant mixer and conveyors, without equipment specific procedures.     Violation occurred on or about 4/12/2013.