OSHA Inspection: LKQ CRYSTAL RIVER INC.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(1): The employer did not establish and maintain an audiometric testing program as provided by 29 CFR 1910.95(g) by making audiometric testing available to all employees whose exposures equal or exceed an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels:  On or about 11/06/14, at the above address jobsite,  the employer did not perform a baseline audiogram when employees were found to be above 85 dBa as a time-weighted average.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(e): The employer did not notify each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels of the results of the monitoring:   On or about 11/06/14, at the above address jobsite,  the employer did not inform employees that were found to be above 85 dBa as a time-weighted average of their results.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:   On or about October 16th, 2014, at the above address jobsite, the employer did not provide the information contained in the Appendix D to employees using a N95 filtering facepiece respirator or half-face air purifying respirator at the facility.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user:   On or about October 16th, 2014, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not provide medical evalaution to those employees using a half-face air purifying respirator.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $400.00 · Current $400.00

Hazardous substances 0689

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: On or about 10/16/14, at the above address jobsite, the employer had not performed initial monitoring on employees exposed to hexavalent chromium while conducting welding operations.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $400.00 · Current $400.00

Hazardous substances 0689

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(l)(1)(iii): The employer did not include chromium (VI) in the hazard communication program established to comply with the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), ensure that each employee had access to labels on containers of chromium (VI) and to safety data sheets, and was trained in accordance with the requirements of HCS and 29 CFR 1910.1026:   On or about 10/16/14, at the above address jobsite, the employer had not incorporated the chromium VI requirements and training into their hazard communication program.

Issued

2015-01-06 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 0689

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(l)(2)(i): Prior to initial job assignment to an area where employees were subject to chromium (VI) exposure, the employer did not ensure that each employee can demonstrate knowledge in the content of this section, and the purpose and description of the medical surveillance program required by paragraph (k) of this section.   On or about 10/16/14, at the above address jobsite, the employer had not provided training on the contents of the chromium VI standard.