OSHA Inspection: PERFORMANCE BUILDERS LLC

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $1360.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c): Respiratory protection program. This paragraph requires the employer to develop and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures and elements for required respirator use. The program must be administered by a suitably trained program administrator. In addition, certain program elements may be required for voluntary use to prevent potential hazards associated with the use of the respirator. The Small Entity Compliance Guide contains criteria for the selection of a program administrator and a sample program that meets the requirements of this paragraph. Copies of the Small Entity Compliance Guide will be available on or about April 8, 1998 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Office of Publications, Room N 3101, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210 (202-219-4667).  a. At the work site located at 10660 Burr Oak Lodge Road, Glouster, OH   45732, the employer had no written respiratory protection program as required by the standard.  The employer required that employees wear respiratory protection while cutting and removing concrete walls during the reconfiguration of hotel rooms.

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): General. The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.  a.  At the work site located at 10660 Burr Oak Lodge Road, Glouster, OH  45732, the employer did not have employees who were required to wear respiratory protection medically evaluated prior to the use of the respiratory protection.

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer shall ensure that employees using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator pass an appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT) as stated in this paragraph.  a.  At the work site located at 10660 Burr Oak Lodge Road, Glouster, OH   45732, the employer did not have respirator fit testing done for employees who were required to wear respirators.

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of this section, shall be provided by the employer in any written or oral format, to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer.  a.  At the work site located at 10660 Burr Oak Lodge Road, Glouster, OH  45732, the employer had not provided employees with Appendix D.  Employees voluntarily wore respiratory protection while gutting and refurbishing hotel rooms including removing concrete, wall coverings, floor coverings, furniture and fixtures.

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $1360.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(c)(1): The employer shall administer a continuing, effective hearing conservation program, as described in paragraphs (c) through (o) of this section, whenever employee noise exposures equal or exceed an 8-hour time-weighted average sound level (TWA) of 85 decibels measured on the A scale (slow response) or, equivalently, a dose of fifty percent. For purposes of the hearing conservation program, employee noise exposures shall be computed in accordance with appendix A and Table G-16a, and without regard to any attenuation provided by the use of personal protective equipment.  a.  The employer had not developed and implemented a hearing conservation program for employees working in the hotel rooms and areas being gutted and rehabilitated.  A saw operator was exposed to continuous noise at 150.4% on April 23, 2013, which exceeded the permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 50%, an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) sound level of 85 dBA.  The saw operator's 8-hour TWA sound level was approximately 92.94 dBA during the 275 minute sampling period.  Exposure calculations included a zero increment for the 205 minutes not sampled.  b.  The employer had not developed and implemented a hearing conservation program for employees working in the hotel rooms and areas being gutted and rehabilitated.  A saw operator assistant was exposed to continuous noise at 121.0% on April 23, 2013, which exceeded the permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 50%, an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) sound level of 85 dBA.  The saw operator assistant's 8-hour TWA sound level was approximately 91.30 dBA during the 260 minute sampling period.Exposure calculations included a zero increment for the 220 minutes not sampled.

Issued

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-07-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(k)(1): The employer shall train each employee who is exposed to noise at or above an 8-hour time weighted average of 85 decibels in accordance with the requirements of this section. The employer shall institute a training program and ensure employee participation in the program.  a.  The employer had not developed and implemented a training program for employees who were exposed to noise at or above an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) of 85 decibels and ensure all employees participated in the program.  Two employees who operated a concrete saw were exposed to noise above the 8-hour time weighted average of 85 decibels and had not been trained about the hazards of noise exposure.