OSHA Inspection: LED WAVES

Issued

2014-01-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1560.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.36(d)(1): Employees must be able to open an exit route door from the inside at all times without keys, tools, or special knowledge. A device such as a panic bar that locks only from the outside is permitted on exit discharge doors.    a) 4100 1st avenue, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232-  The emergency door at the back end of the facility could not be opened from the inside. The door was locked from the inside with a metal bar on or about 12/20/13.

Issued

2014-01-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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, material safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:  a) facility- Employees are using lead solder in the production area to put together lights and are not provided with a Hazard Communication program on or about 12/20/13.

Issued

2014-01-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s)   a) facility- Employees are using lead solder in the production and assembly of lighting and a Material Safety Data Sheet was not provided to employees on or about 12/20/13.

Issued

2014-01-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) facility- Employees are using lead solder in the production and assembly of lights and have not been trained in the hazards associated with it, on or about 12/20/13.