OSHA Inspection: C&I HEAT TREAT, INC.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c): The employer did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures and elements for required respirator use:      At C&I Heat Treat, the employer did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program, exposing employees to inhalation hazards.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4): When the employer decided that its employees would enter permit spaces, the employer did not develop and implement a written permit space entry program that complied with 29 CFR 1910.146:       At C&I Heat Treat, the employer did not establish a written space entry program, exposing employees to hazardous atmosphere.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(5)(ii): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not evaluate permit space conditions when entry operations were conducted by testing or monitoring the permit space as necessary.      At the furnace area, the employer did not evaluate the permit space prior to entry, exposing employees to inhalation hazards.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative:       At C&I Heat Treat, the employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, training and periodic inspections, exposing employees to pneumatic and electrical hazards.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1): One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks:      At furnace area; employees are not protected from unguarded rotating parts on the Trolley, unknown serial number and model, exposing employees to caught in hazards.

Issued

Jun 26, 2015

Abate by

Jul 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(b)(1)(ii): Unused openings in boxes, cabinets, or fittings were not effectively closed:      a)  At furnace Cir 48N12 West Power Distribution; employees worked around electrical panels with unused opening, exposing employees to electrical hazards.      b)  At furnace D2's electrical panel; employees worked around electrical panels with unused opening, exposing employees to electrical hazards.