OSHA Inspection: OBSERVA-DOME LABORATORIES, INC.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,040 · Current $624 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.23(e)(1): A standard railing shall consist of top rail, intermediate rail, and posts, and shall have a vertical height of 42 inches nominal from upper surface of top rail to floor, platform, runway, or ramp level. The top rail shall be smooth-surfaced throughout the length of the railing. The intermediate rail shall be approximately halfway between the top rail and the floor, platform, runway, or ramp. The ends of the rails shall not overhang the terminal posts except where such overhang does not constitute a projection hazard.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 the wooden stairway leading to the mezzanine in the paint shop was not equipped with a midrail.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $1,020 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.106(d)(3)(i): Maximum capacity. Not more than 60 gallons of Category 1, 2, or 3 flammable liquids, nor more than 120 gallons of Category 4 flammable liquids may be stored in a storage cabinet.  On or about July 15 2013 flammable chemicals such as Amerlock resin,  Amerlock cure, acetone, and gasoline was not stored in a flammable storage cabinet in the workplace where management and employees smoke.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Sep 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,836 · Current $1,102 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): In any workplace where respirators are necessary to protect the health of the employee or whenever respirators are required by the employer, the employer shall establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures. The program shall be updated as necessary to reflect those changes in workplace conditions that affect respirator use. The employer shall include in the program the following provisions of this section, as applicable:  a) On or about July 15, 2013 employer has not implemented a respirator program where painters are requires to wear a 3M- half mask respirators.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Sep 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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) On or about July 15, 2013 the employer had not provided medical evaluations to determine if employees wearing the 3M-half mask respirator were capable of wearing a respirator.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Sep 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f): Fit testing. This paragraph requires that, before an employee may be required to use any respirator with a negative or positive pressure tight-fitting facepiece, the employee must be fit tested with the same make, model, style, and size of respirator that will be used. This paragraph specifies the kinds of fit tests allowed, the procedures for conducting them, and how the results of the fit tests must be used.   a) On or about July 15, 2013 employees wearing the 3M- half mask tight fitting facepiece respirator had not been fit tested.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Aug 14, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(h)(2)(i): All respirators shall be stored to protect them from damage, contamination, dust, sunlight, extreme temperatures, excessive moisture, and damaging chemicals, and they shall be packed or stored to prevent deformation of the facepiece and exhalation valve.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 an employee respirator was not stored to protect from contaimination, dust, and deformation caused by extreme temperatures.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,561 · Current $937 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.253(b)(2)(ii): Inside of buildings, cylinders shall be stored in a well-protected, well-ventilated, dry location, at least 20 (6.1 m) feet from highly combustible materials such as oil or excelsior. Cylinders should be stored in definitely assigned places away from elevators, stairs, or gangways. Assigned storage spaces shall be located where cylinders will not be knocked over or damaged by passing or falling objects, or subject to tampering by unauthorized persons. Cylinders shall not be kept in unventilated enclosures such as lockers and cupboards.  On or about July 15, 2013 two Argon compressed tanks UN1006 were not secured by a chain or rack to prevent from falling.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,301 · Current $781 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.254(d)(8): Electric shock. Cables with splices within 10 feet (3 m) of the holder shall not be used. The welder should not coil or loop welding electrode cable around parts of his body.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 the welding electrode cable had splices and exposed wiring within ten feet of the holder.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,561 · Current $937 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(b)(1)(ii): Unused openings in cabinets, boxes, and fittings shall be effectively closed.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 an electrical panel box located at the southeast corner of the building had open spaces inside.  b) On or about July 15, 2013 the electrical panel box that controls the Gardner Denver compressor in the paint shop had open spaces inside.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1): Space about electric equipment. Sufficient access and working space shall be provided and maintained about all electric equipment to permit ready and safe operation and maintenance of such equipment.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 employer did not allow approximately three feet of clearence or to gain access to electrical panel boxes in the production area and paint shop that was blocked by a portable dust collection system, work table , microwave, and an ice machine.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Sep 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:  a) On or about July 15, 2013 employer had not implemented a written hazard communication program  for employees exposed to chemicals such as Amerlock resin, Amerlock cure and others.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Aug 14, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(6): Workplace labeling. Except as provided in paragraphs (f)(7) and (f)(8) of this section, the employer shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace is labeled, tagged or marked with either: The information specified under paragraphs (f)(1)(i) through (v) of this section for labels on shipped containers; or, Product identifier and words, pictures, symbols, or combination thereof, which provide at least general information regarding the hazards of the chemicals, and which, in conjunction with the other information immediately available to employees under the hazard communication program, will provide employees with the specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the hazardous chemical.  On or about July 15, 2013 a seventy five gallon diesel storage tank was not label.

Issued

Aug 8, 2013

Abate by

Sep 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new physical or health hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and material safety data sheets.  a) On or about July 15, 2013 the employer had not provided hazard communication training for employees exposed to chemicals chemicals such as, but limited to, resin, paints, oxygen, acetylene, gasoline and diesel.