OSHA Inspection: LIBERTAS COPPER, LLC

Issued

2015-01-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $200.00 · Current $200.00

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 remove dummies, manikins, or actual persons from the actual permit spaces or from representative permit spaces:  a) In the Caster Department, on or about December 2, 2014 - The employer did not ensure that Maintenance Technicians practiced permit space rescues at least once every 12 months.  Maintenance Technicians, or Millwrights, enter approximately 30 foot pits in the Caster Department to inspect packing on a cylinder among other maintenance activities.   Libertas Copper, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1910.146(k)(2)(iv), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 806461, citation number 1, item number 1 and was affirmed as a final order on June 20, 2013, with respect to a workplace located at 100 Washington Street, Leetsdale, PA 15056.

Issued

2015-01-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1027(m)(4)(ii): Employee information and training were not provided prior to or at the time of initial assignment to a job involving potential exposure to cadmium and at least annually thereafter:  a) In the Caster Department, on or about December 2, 2014 - Casters and Assistant Casters were not provided with information and training involving potential exposure to cadmium annually.  Casters and Assistant Casters are exposed to cadmium working near furnaces in the Caster Department.