OSHA Inspection: SUCCESS VILLAGE APARTMENTS, INC

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(a): Protective equipment was not used when necessary whenever hazards capable of causing injury and impairment were encountered.     Location - Success Village Apartments,  Bridgeport, CT.     Personal protective equipment was not available and provided when employees were expected to enter crawl spaces contaminated with thermal system insulation containing asbestos.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2): The employer did not verify, through a written certification, that the required workplace hazard assessment had been performed:     Location - Success Village Apartments,  Bridgeport, CT.     The written certification, that is required to verify a workplace hazard assessment for personal protective equipment, was conducted and completed.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1): The employer did not provide training to each employee who is required by this section to use personal protective equipment:     Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT.     Personal protective equipment (PPE) training including when PPE is necessary, what PPE is necessary, how to properly don, doff, adjust and wear PPE, the limitations of the PPE and the proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of PPE was not completed.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(3): The employer did not designate a program administrator who was qualified by appropriate training or experience to administer or oversee the respiratory protection program and to conduct the required evaluations of program effectiveness.     Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT.     The respiratory protection program did not have a designated current program administrator.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): Training was not provided prior to requiring employees to use a respirator in the workplace.    Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT.     Respirator training was not provided to employees who were required to wear half face, negative pressure, tight fitting respirators.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(l)(1): Evaluations of the workplace were not conducted to ensure the written respiratory protection program was being effectively implemented.     Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT.     The written respiratory protection program had not been evaluated to ensure it was effectively implemented.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1001(c)(1): The employer did not ensure that no employee was exposed to an airborne concentration of asbestos in excess of 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter of air as an eight (8)-hour time-weighted average (TWA) as determined by the method prescribed in Appendix A of 29 CFR 1910.1001 or equivalent method.    Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT    Employees working in areas such as but not limited to the areas identified below were not monitored for exposure to asbestos fibers to ensure no employee was exposed to an airborne concentration of asbestos in excess of 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter:    1.   Crawl spaces below the apartment buildings.     2.  The storage rooms in the basement of the maintenance building and boiler room.    3.   Apartment Building #35, Apartment #145.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1001(j)(3)(i): The building owner, facility owner, or employer did not determine the presence, location, and quantity of ACM or PACM at the worksite and did not exercise due diligence in complying with these requirements to inform employers and employees about the presence and location of asbestos-containing material (ACM) and presumed asbestos containing material (PACM):     Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT     A competent person for asbestos removal where 9" x 9" asbestos floor tiles were removed did not conduct an initial exposure assessment for the presence, location and quantity of ACM and/or PACM.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1001(j)(4)(iv): 1910.1001(j)(v): Signs identifying the presence, location and work practices to not disturb the ACM and/or PACM contained within the area were not posted at the entrance where employees were reasonably expected to enter.       Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT     Warning signs were not posted in area such as but not limited to entrances to the mechanical rooms and/or crawl spaces were asbestos containing material (ACM) or presumed asbestos containing material (PACM) was known to be present.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1001(k)(1): All surfaces were not maintained as free as practicable of ACM waste and debris and accompanying dust:     Location - Success Village Apartments, Bridgeport, CT    In the following instances ACM Thermal System insulation (TSI) and 9" x 9" floor tile containing ACM waste and debris was found/discovered to be present.     1.   Crawl spaces below the apartment buildings     2.  The storage room in the basement of the maintenance building     3.   Apartment Building #35, Apartment #145 kitchen area.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(e)(1): Operations covered by this standard, other than Class I, II, and III work, in which airborne concentrations of asbestos exceeded, or where there was a reasonable possibility they could exceed the permissible exposure limit (PEL), were not conducted within a regulated area:     Location - Success Village Apartments,  Building #35, Apt #145, Bridgeport CT.     The 9" x 9" asbestos floor tiles were not removed within a regulated area.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(2)(i): The employer with a work operation covered by the asbestos standard did not ensure that a "competent person" conducted an exposure assessment immediately before or at the initiation of the operation to ascertain expected exposures during that operation or workplace:    Location - Success Village Apartments, Building 35 Apt 145, Bridgeport CT.    The 9 x 9 asbestos floor tiles were removed when there was no competent person to conduct an initial exposure assessment.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(h)(3)(i)(A): The employer did not select the appropriate respirators as specified in 29 CFR 1910.134(d)(3)(i)(A):    Location - Success Village Apartments, Building #35, Apt #145, Bridgeport CT.    Employees removing 9" x 9" asbestos floor tiles were not provided with and required to wear the appropriate half face, nagative pressure tight fitting air purifying respitators.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(9)(i): The employer did not institute, at no cost to employees, a training program for each employee who was likely to be exposed in excess of the permissible exposure limit (PEL) and for each employee who performed Class I through IV asbestos operations:    Location - Success Village Apartments, Building #35, Apt #145, Bridgeport CT.    Employees performing Class II asbestos operations (removing 9" x 9" floor tiles) were not provided with an asbestos training program.

Issued

Nov 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(l)(3)(i): All vinyl and asphalt flooring material shall be maintained in accordance with this paragraph unless the building/facility owner demonstrates, pursuant to paragraph (g)(8)(i)(I) of this section that the flooring does not contain asbestos.    Location - Success Village Apartments, building #35, Apt #145, Bridgeport CT.    Employees removed 9" x 9" floor tiles that contained asbestos.