OSHA Inspection: CONTINENTAL FABRICATORS, INC.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $1,750 Reduced

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:    For employee(s) who wore a CLEMCO 600 supplied air respirator, 3M PAPR (Model 9100FX), and 3M 6001 full face respirator for sand blasting, welding, and spray painting operations respectively, medical evaluations had not been conducted.        .

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Employee(s) using tight-fitting facepiece respirators were not fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator:(a) (LOCATION) (IDENTIFY SPECIFIC OPERATION/CONDITION) (DESCRIBE HAZARD)    For employee(s) who wore 3M 6001 full face respirators during spray painting operations, fit testing had not been conducted.         .

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $1,750 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(2): When the workplace contained permit spaces, 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:    The following permit-required confined spaces were not placarded with a suitable sign:    a/ DELETE  b/ A variety of temporary production tanks and vessels located in Bay 3 and throughout

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(5)(i)(C): The employer did not develop monitoring and inspection data that supported the demonstrations required by paragraphs (c)(5)(i)(A) and (c)(5)(i)(B) of this section:    a/  The employer did not develop monitoring and inspection data or testing that supported a safe atmosphere inside of the new and used production vessels prior to authorizing entry.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(f): The entry permit that documented compliance with this section and authorized entry to a permit space did not identify all the criteria in 1910.146(f)(1) - (f)(14):    The entry permit that documented compliance with this section and authorized entry to a permit space did not identify the following:    a/ The personnel, by name, currently serving as attendants;  b/ The individual, by name, currently serving as entry supervisor;  c/ The hazards of the permit space to be entered;  d/ The measures used to isolate the permit space and to eliminate or control permit space hazards before entry;  e/ The rescue and emergency services that can be summoned and the means for summoning these services;  f/ The communication procedures used by authorized entrants and attendants to maintain contact during the entry;  g/ Equipment, such as personal protective equipment, testing equipment, communications equipment, alarm systems, and rescue equipment to be provided for compliance with this section; and   h/ Any other information whose inclusion is necessary, given the circumstances of the particular confined, space, in order to ensure employee safety

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(i)(4): The employer did not ensure that the attendant(s) remained outside the permit space during entry operations until relieved by another attendant:    a/  Inside Bay 3, an authorized attendant(s) did not remain at the permit space during entry operations.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(k)(1)(i): The employer did not evaluate a prospective rescuer's ability to respond to a rescue summons in a timely manner, considering the hazard(s) identified:     a/  Inside Bay 3, the employer did not identify and designate rescue and emergency services and did not evaluate a prospective rescuer's ability to respond to a rescue summons in a timely manner.  Employee(s) entered permit required confined spaces for the purpose of welding closing seams on temporary steel vessels.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Apr 30, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(k)(2)(iv): The employer did not ensure that affected employees practice making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months, by means of simulated rescue operations in which they removed dummies, manikins, or actual persons from the actual permit spaces or from representative permit spaces:     a/  Inside Bay 3, the employer did not ensure that affected employees practice making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months.  No means of simulated rescue operations in which they removed dummies, manikins, or actual persons from the actual permit space or from representative permit spaces were performed.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(d)(3)  All energy isolating devices that are needed to control the energy to the machine or equipment were not physically located and operated in such a manner as to isolate the machine or equipment from the energy source(s):    a/ Inside Bay 3, the electrical energy isolating devices belonging to two tank rollers were not locked out.  Vessels were secured to the tank rolling machines.  Employees entered the vessels to perform work while these machine(s) were energized.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(5)(i): Locks, tags, chains, wedges, key blocks, adapter pins, self-locking fasteners, or other hardware were not provided by the employer for isolating, securing or blocking of machines or equipment from energy sources.    a/  inside Bay 3, authorized employees were not supplied with padlocks or equivalent hardware to isolate the electrical isolating devices belonging to the two tank rolling machines.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.252(b)(2)(iii): Workers and other persons adjacent to the welding area were not protected from the rays by noncombustible or flameproof screens or shields:    Inside Bays 3-5, employee(s) working adjacent to a number of arc welding operations were not protected by noncombustible or flameproof screens or shields or the equivalent.  These employees were not provided with suitable eye protection to protect them from absorbing ultraviolet radiation.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.252(b)(3): Employees exposed to the hazards created by welding, cutting, or brazing operations were not protected by personal protective equipment in accordance with the requirements of 1910.132:    Inside Bay 5, employee(s) performing oxy-fuel cutting operations were not wearing the following personal protective equipment:     a/ Flame retardant cap, jacket and pants or the equivalent  b/ Suitable leather gloves

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.253(b)(4)(iii): Oxygen cylinders in storage were not separated from fuel-gas cylinders or combustible materials (especially oil or grease), a minimum distance of 20 feet (6.1 m) or by a noncombustible barrier at least 5 feet (1.5 m) high having a fire-resistance rating of at least one-half hour:    Adjacent to the west wall of Bay 5, an exterior compressed gas storage area contained four cylinders of flammable Hydro Star H35 co-stored with oxygen cylinders.

Issued

Oct 22, 2014

Abate by

Jan 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $1,750 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(l)(2)(i)(A): The employer did not provide appropriate information and training for all employees exposed to chromium (VI), in that employees could not demonstrate knowledge of the contents of the Chromium (VI) standard, 29 CFR 1910.1026:    At the facility, for welders who were exposed to hexavalent chromium during welding operations on stainless steel, information and training on the contents of this section, and the purpose and description of the medical surveillance program required by paragraph (k) of this section had not been conducted.