OSHA Inspection: CLARION HOSPITAL

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $1,950 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1)(ii): The required working space about electric equipment rated 600 volts, nominal, or less to ground, was used for storage:           a.)    Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4, 518 Penn Street, New Bethlehem, PA  16242, southwest corner of the ambulance garage area, on or about April 14, 2015 and times prior thereto:  Items including, but not limited to, a BBQ-Pro Deluxe propane grill was stored in front of electrical breaker panel boxes.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(f)(2): Each service, feeder, and branch circuit, at its disconnecting means or overcurrent device, was not legibly marked to indicate its purpose, nor located and arranged so the purpose was evident:    a.) Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4, 518 Penn Street, New Bethlehem, PA  16242, southwest corner of the ambulance garage area, on or about April 14, 2015 and times prior thereto:  An electrical panel in the ambulance garage area contains breakers for electrical circuits including, but not limited to, lights, furnaces, and air conditioning.  Not all breakers in the electrical panel box were identified as to their function.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(b)(7)(i): Unused openings in boxes, raceways, auxillary gutters, cabinets, equipment cases, or housings were not effectively closed to afford protection substanially equivalent to the wall of the equipment:   a.) Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4, 518 Penn Street, New Bethlehem, PA  16242, southwest corner of the ambulance garage area, on or about April 14, 2015 and times prior thereto:  An electrical breaker panel box containing live electrical parts was missing a knockout.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 31, 2015

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $3,250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(ii)(B):  The employer's Exposure Control Plan did not include the schedule and method of implementation for paragraphs (d) Methods of Compliance, (f) Hepatitis B Vaccination and Post-Exposure Evaluation and Follow-up, (g) Communication of Hazards to Employees, and (h) Recordkeeping, of this standard:       a) Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4., 518 Penn St., New Bethlehem, Pa 16242-On or about April 14, 2015, and times prior thereto, Employees had potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens intermittently throughout work operations including but not limited to, giving injections, or exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material (OPIM) during patient handling.  The employers written Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plan was not site specific in that, the written plan did not identify items including but not limited to:           1) The name of the responsible person or department that will be responsible for training, documentation of training, and making the written Exposure Control Plan available to employees, OSHA, and NIOSH representatives;       2) The job titles of employees with occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens or OPIM;       3) The listed task/procedures in which some employees would have potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens or OPIM;       4) The name of the responsible person or department in which employees could contact in order to review the bloodborne pathogen plan during their work shift;       5) The name of the responsible person or department who would be responsible for ensuring that the recommendations and procedures in regard to engineering controls and work practices are carried out;       6) The description of the process, literature reviewed, supplier information reviewed, and products considered for changes in engineering controls;       7) The name of the responsible person or department who will perform laundering;       8) A list of the Personal Protective Equipment that will be utilized while handling and/or sorting contaminated laundry;       9) The name of the responsible person or department who is responsible for ensuring that warning labels are affixed or red bags are used as required if regulated waste or contaminated equipment is brought into the facility;           10) The name of the responsible person or department in which employees would notify if they discover regulated waste containers, refrigerators containing blood or OPIM, contaminated equipment, etc. without proper labels;       11) The name of the responsible person or department who will provide training to employees on hepatitis B vaccinations, addressing safety, benefits, efficacy, methods of administration, and availability;       12) The name of responsible person or department who provides the employee with a copy of the evaluating health care professionals written opinion within 15 days after completion of the evaluation;       13) The name of the responsible person or department that ensures that the health care professional evaluating an employee after an exposure incident are provided with the following:  A description of the employees job duties relevant to the exposure incident, route(s) of exposure, circumstances of exposure, if possible, results of the source individuals blood test, relevant employee medical records, including vaccination status;

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 31, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)(B): The review and update of the exposure control plan did not document annually consideration and implementation of appropriate commercially available and effective safer medical devices designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure:   a) Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4., 518 Penn St., New Bethlehem, Pa 16242-On or about April 14, 2015, and times prior thereto, Employees had potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens intermittently throughout work operations including but not limited to, giving injections, or exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material (OPIM) during patient handling.  Documentation of the annual considerations and potential implementation of additional or different commercially available and effective safer medical devices designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure was not available.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 31, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(v): The employer, who is required to establish an Exposure Control Plan, solicited input from non-managerial employees responsible for dierct patient care who are potentially exposed to injuries from contaminated sharps in the identification, evaluation and selection of effective engineering and work practice controls and did not document the solicitation in the Exposure Control plan:    a) Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4., 518 Penn St., New Bethlehem, Pa 16242-On or about April 14, 2015, and times prior thereto, Employees had potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens intermittently throughout work operations including but not limited to, giving injections, or exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material (OPIM) during patient handling.  Documentation of the solicitation of input from non-managerial employees responsible for direct patient care who are potentially exposed to injuries from contaminated sharps in the identification, evaluation, and selection, of effective engineering and work practice controls was not available.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(i): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the identity of the hazardous chemical(s) contained therein:  a.)    Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4., 518 Penn St., New Bethlehem, Pa 16242-garage/chemical storage area- on or about April 14, 2015 and times prior thereto:  A one gallon container containing Prime Shine Car Wash was not labeled to identify the correct chemical (s) contained within the container.  The one gallon container was labeled as Napa brand Windshield wash.

Issued

Jul 15, 2015

Abate by

Aug 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the appropriate hazard warnings:   a.)    Clarion Hospital dba Clarion Hospital EMS Station #4., 518 Penn St., New Bethlehem, Pa 16242-garage/chemical storage area- on or about April 14, 2015 and times prior thereto:  A one gallon container containing Prime Shine Car Wash was not labeled to identify the correct hazard warning of the chemical (s) contained within the containers.  The one gallon container was labeled as Napa brand Windshield wash and did not include the hazard warnings of the hazardous substance.