OSHA Inspection: TRI-C RENTAL TOOLS, INC.

Issued

2014-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1360.00 · Current $1360.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): General. The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.   At this job site employees conducting sandblasting and painting inside frac-tanks wearing half-face respirators were not provided with medical evaluations.

Issued

2014-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1700.00 · Current $1700.00

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):  At this job site employees conducting painting work using Acrolon 218 HS polyurethane on frac tanks were not provided fit test by the employer.