OSHA Inspection: VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, INC

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,470 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): A written respiratory protection program that included the provisions in 29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i) - (ix) with worksite specific procedures was not established and implemented for required respirator use: (Construction Reference 1926.103).    Location - Valley Railroad Company, "Decosta" train car, Essex, Ct.    A written respiratory program where employees were required to wear Freedom series 200 half face negative pressure respirator was not implemented.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee was fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace: (Construction Reference 1926.103).  Location - Valley Railroad Company, Inc. "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT.  Medical evaluation was not provided to employees who were required to wear half face, negative pressure, tight fitting respirators.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer did not ensure that employee(s) required to use a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed the appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT): (Construction Reference 1926.103)   Location -  Valley Railroad Company, "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT  Employees were required to wear Freedom series 200 half face negative pressure respirator were not fit tested.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,470 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 - Valley Railroad Company, Inc. "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT.   Asbestos being removed from the inside walls of the train car was not performed within a regulated area.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 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 - Valley Railroad Company, Inc. "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT.  An initial exposure assessment was not conducted by a competent person immediately before or at the initiation of asbestos removal within the train car.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,470 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(2)(i): Before work subject to this standard began, the building and/or facility owner(s) did not determine the presence, location and quantity of asbestos containing material (ACM) and/or presumed asbestos containing material (PACM) at the worksite pursuant to 29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(1):  Location - Valley Railroad Company, Inc. "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT.  The location and present of the asbestos containing material in the interior walls of the train car was never determined before work began.

Issued

Jan 14, 2014

Abate by

Feb 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 - Valley Railroad Company, Inc. "Decosta" train car, Essex, CT.  Employees performing Class II asbestos operations (removing interior walls) were not provided with an asbestos training program.