OSHA Inspection: SHARON COATING, LLC

Issued

2014-08-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 0691

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(2)(i): The employer using the scheduled monitoring option did not perform initial monitoring to determine the 8-hour time-weighted average exposure to chromium (VI) for each employee on the basis of a sufficient number of personal breathing zone air samples to accurately characterize full shift exposure on each shift, for each job classification, in each work area:  a.) Coating - On or about 6/19/14, an Assistant Operator was exposed to 0.12 ug/m3 of Hexavalent Chromium (Chromium VI), as an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA), while operating chromate coaters.  The exposure level was derived from one sample collected over 430 minutes and assumed zero exposure for the remaining work shift.  The Company had not previously determined 8-hour TWA exposures for employees potentially exposed to Chromium VI.