OSHA Inspection: BOLD WOOD INTERIORS, LLC

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.38(b): Written and oral emergency action plans. An emergency action plan must be in writing, kept in the workplace, and available to employees for review. However, an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally to employees.        WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established an emergency evacuation plan for the employees.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.38(e): Training. An employer must designate and train employees to assist in a safe and orderly evacuation of other employees.  WORKSHOP: The employer had not designated and trained employees for a safe and orderly evacuation for other employees during an emergency evacuation process.   ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1): The employer shall assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). If such hazards are present, or likely to be present, the employer shall:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not assessed the workplace to determine the necessitate and appropriate types of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the employees.       ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1): The employer shall provide training to each employee who is required by this section to use PPE.   WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) were not trained on the Workplace Hazard Assessment for personal protective equipment.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): In any workplace where respirators are necessary to protect the health of the employee or whenever respirators are required by the employer, the employer shall establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures. The program shall be updated as necessary to reflect those changes in workplace conditions that affect respirator use. The employer shall include in the program the following provisions of this section, as applicable:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established and implemented a written worksite-specific respiratory protection program and procedures consisting of employee training, proper selection, fit testing, and medical evaluations where employees were required to wear half facepiece cartridge respirators during tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting.                         ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): The employer shall provide the training prior to requiring the employee to use a respirator in the workplace.  WORKSHOP:  The employer had not provided training and evaluation prior to requiring the employees to wear half facepiece cartridge respirator during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

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.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear the half facepiece cartridge respirators during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting had not been medically evaluated for their ability prior to the employees wearing the respirators.    ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): The employer shall ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator is fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator, whenever a different respirator facepiece (size, style, model or make) is used, and at least annually thereafter.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear the half facepiece cartridge respirators during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting had not been fit tested prior to wearing and on an annual basis.       ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(h)(2)(i): All respirators shall be stored to protect them from damage, contamination, dust, sunlight, extreme temperatures, excessive moisture, and damaging chemicals, and they shall be packed or stored to prevent deformation of the facepiece and exhalation valve.    WORKSHOP:  The half facepiece cartridge respirators, worn by employees during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting were not stored appropriately and in a proper manner to protect them from damage and contamination.        ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(g)(1): Where the employer has provided portable fire extinguishers for employee use in the workplace, the employer shall also provide an educational program to familiarize employees with the general principles of fire extinguisher use and the hazards involved with incipient stage fire fighting.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, expected to use portable fire extinguishing equipment to control small/incipient stage fires were not provided with an education program and a training to familiarize with the general principle and hazards associated with the use of equipment.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Abate by

Jul 20, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.178(a)(6): The user shall see that all nameplates and markings are in place and are maintained in a legible condition.    WORKSHOP:  The Caterpillar powered industrial truck (PIT) was not equipped with a nameplate.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1): If at any time a powered industrial truck is found to be in need of repair, defective, or in any way unsafe, the truck shall be taken out of service until it has been restored to safe operating condition.  WORKSHOP:  The horn on the Caterpillar powered industrial truck (PIT) was not operable.   ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.213(c)(1): Each circular hand-fed ripsaw shall be guarded by a hood which shall completely enclose that portion of the saw above the table and that portion of the saw above the material being cut. The hood and mounting shall be arranged so that the hood will automatically adjust itself to the thickness of and remain in contact with the material being cut but it shall not offer any considerable resistance to insertion of material to saw or to passage of the material being sawed. The hood shall be made of adequate strength to resist blows and strains incidental to reasonable operation, adjusting, and handling, and shall be so designed as to protect the operator from flying splinters and broken saw teeth. It shall be made of material that is soft enough so that it will be unlikely to cause tooth breakage. The hood shall be so mounted as to insure that its operation will be positive, reliable, and in true alignment with the saw; and the mounting shall be adequate in strength to resist any reasonable side thrust or other force tending to throw it out of line.    WORKSHOP:The blade of the Saw Stop hand-fed table saw, used for ripping was not guarded by a hood type guard that completely enclosed the portion of the table and saw above the material being cut.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.307(c): Electrical installations. Equipment, wiring methods, and installations of equipment in hazardous (classified) locations shall be intrinsically safe, approved for the hazardous (classified) location, or safe for the hazardous (classified) location. Requirements for each of these options are as follows:    WORKSHOP:  The electrical equipment, such as (but not limited to) outlets, junction boxes installed and used throughout the woodworking area from where combustible wood dust was generated and accumulated, and the switches installed on woodworking machinery were neither approved nor intrinsically safe for the Class II Division 2 hazardous location.      ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not incorporated the hazard communication program with the Globalized Harmonized System (GHS) where employees were required to work with chemicals, such as (but not limited to) the lacquers and stains.    ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new physical or health hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.  WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to work with chemicals, such as (but not limited to) lacquers and stains were not provided with appropriate training and information on the safety data sheets and labeling.  ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

Jun 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of this section, shall be provided by the employer in any written or oral format, to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer.  WORKSHOP:  The basic advisory information in Appendix D of the respiratory protection standard was not provided to the employees wearing filtering facepieces on a voluntary basis.    ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION