OSHA Inspection: MIA ZOE INC.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $800.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.151(c): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:    (a)  In the stripping room, on or about: The employees were using injurious corrosive chemicals which could produce eye injury, and there was no plumbed eyewash or equivalent for emergency use.      Abatement certification must be submitted.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(i)(2): It was reasonably foreseeable that an employee's eyes may contact solutions containing 0.1 percent or greater methylene chloride and the employer did not provide appropriate eyewash facilities within the immediate work area for emergency use:  (a)  In the stripping room, on or about: The employees were using injurious methylene chloride furniture stripper (at 60-100% methylene chloride content), which could produce eye injury, and there was no plumbed eyewash or equivalent for emergency use.    Abatement certification must be submitted.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-11-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(c)(2): The employer did not ensure that no employee was exposed to an airborne concentration of methylene chloride in excess of 125 parts per million as determined over a sampling period of 15 minutes:    (a) At the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: An employee using methylene chloride paint stripper was exposed to a 15 minute short term exposure of methylene chloride at 282.2 parts per million (ppm); or 2.25 times the STEL of 125 ppm during the 15 minute sampling period.     Abatement documentation must be submitted for this item.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-11-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(f)(1): The employer did not institute and maintain the effectiveness of engineering controls and work practices to reduce employee exposure to or below the permissible exposure limits and wherever the feasible engineering controls and work practices which can be instituted were not sufficient to reduce employee exposure to or below the 8-hour time weighted average permissible exposure limit or short term exposure limit, the employer did not use them to reduce employee exposure to the lowest levels achievable and did not supplement them by the use of respiratory protection that compiled with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.1052(g):   (a) In the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: Engineering controls and work practices to reduce employee exposure to methylene chloride to the lowest achievable levels were not provided for an employee using methylene chloride containing paint stripper.  See Citation 1, Item 2a for exposure results.    Abatement documentation must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-11-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(g)(1)(i): Respirators were not used during periods when an employee's exposure to methylene chloride exceeds the 8-hour time weighted average permissible exposure limit or short term exposure limit:  (a)  At the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: A respirator was not provided to an employee exposed above the short term exposure limit for methylene chloride while paint stripping was done with methylene chloride paint stripper.  See Citation 1, Item 1a for exposure results.  Abatement documentation must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(g)(2)(i): The employer did not implement a respiratory protection program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134 (b) through (m) (except (d)(1)(iii)), which covers each employee required by 29 CFR 1910.1052 to use a respirator:  (a) Foam assembly department, on or about June 2, 2014: The employer did not implement a respiratory protection program for employees working with methylene chloride furniture stripper, who were or had potential to be overexposed to methylene chloride.  Abatement documentation must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-11-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(j)(1)(i): The employer did not make medical surveillance available for employees who were or potentially were  exposed to methylene chloride at or above the action level on 30 or more days per year, or above the 8-hour time weighted average permissible exposure limit or the short term exposure limit on 10 or more days per year:  (a) At the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: There was no medical surveillance for employees who were overexposed to methylene chloride, above the STEL of 125 ppm, for more than 10 days per year.   Abatement documentation must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(d)(2): The employer did not perform initial monitoring to determine each employee's exposure to methylene chloride:     (a) At the furniture stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: The employer had done no initial monitoring for employees using furniture stripper liquid, containing 60-100% methylene chloride by weight.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-11-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(e)(1): The employer did not establish a regulated area wherever an employee's exposure to airborne concentrations of methylene chloride exceeded or could reasonably be expected to exceed either the 8-hour Time Weighted Average Permissible Exposure Limit or the Short Term Exposure Limit:  (a) At the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: There was no regulated area established where  employee(s) were exposed to methylene chloride above the STEL of 125 ppm.   Abatement certification must be submitted.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(k)(1)(i): The employer did not comply with all requirements of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) (1910.1200) for MC:    (a) At the furniture stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014: The employees were exposed to methylene chloride and were not informed about the health hazards from acute and chronic exposure to methylene chloride, and all other requirements of the Hazard Communication Standard.    Abatement certification must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1730

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1052(l)(1): The employer did not provide information and training for each affected employee prior to or at the time of initial assignment to a job involving potential exposure to methylene chloride:  (a) At the stripping department, on or about August 20, 2014:  At the time of the inspection, the employee(s) exposed to methylene chloride had not been provided with adequate information and training about hazardous acute and chronic exposure to methylene chloride.  Abatement certification must be submitted for these items.

Issued

2014-11-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(iv):   The details of the hazard communication program developed by the employer, did not include an explanation of the labels received on shipped containers and the workplace labeling system used by their employer; the safety data sheet, including the order of information and how employee could obtain and use the appropriate hazard information:  (a) In the facility, on or about: Employees used multiple wood refinishing products including flammable, combustible, corrosive and toxic chemicals and there was no training on specific information required by the standard, including location and access to the MSDSs and the pictograms for the chemical warning information.    Abatement certification must be provided.