OSHA Inspection: VALLEY MATERIAL CO. INC.

Issued

Oct 29, 2013

Abate by

Dec 17, 2013

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.23(e)(1): Standard railing(s) did not consist of top rail, intermediate rail and/or posts and/or did not have a vertical height of 42 inches (106.7 cm) nominal from upper surface of top rail to floor, platform runway, or ramp level:    Location:  201 Marshall Road, Valley Park, MO  63088    The southeast gravel bin quadrant had a six foot section of the railing system missing the intermediate rail.  This inadequate railing system is located at the east side of the gravel bin where the fixed industrial ladder descended to the twelve inch wide platform along the east perimeter.  The platform to ground height is approximately ______ feet.

Issued

Oct 29, 2013

Abate by

Nov 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,960 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:    Location:  201 Marshall Road, Valley Park, MO  63088    All permit required confined spaces at the worksite were not identified as such prior to workers entering them including, but not limited to, the elevated gravel bin that welders entered to perform repairs as determined on July 26, 2013.

Issued

Oct 29, 2013

Abate by

Nov 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  NOTE: A sign reading DANGER-PERMIT-REQUIRED CONFINED SPACE, DO NOT ENTER or using other similar language would satisfy the requirement for a sign.  Location:  201 Marshall Road, Valley Park, MO  63088  Employees were not informed by signs or other effective means of the existence and location of and the dager posed by all permit required confined spaces on site including, but not limited to, the elevated gravel bin that welders entered to repair damaged walls as determined on July 26, 2013.

Issued

Oct 29, 2013

Abate by

Nov 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(8)(i): When an employer arranged to have employees of another employer (contractor) perform work that involved permit space entry, the host employer did not inform the contractor that the workplace contained permit spaces and that permit space entry is allowed only through compliance with a permit space program:  Location:  201 Marshall Road, Valley Park, MO  63088   Valley Material Co. Inc. hired Valley Park Welding employees to perform welding repairs within the elevated gravel bin and did not inform the welders that permit space entry is allowed only through compliance with a permit space program.