OSHA Inspection: THREE D COMMERCIAL SERVICES, INC. & CREATIVE RUBBER WORKS, LLC, AN INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE

Issued

2015-11-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe condition(s) and the regulation(s) applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazard(s) or other exposure to illness or injury:  a) Rear of house (near garage) at 65 Hillside Ave Hasting-on-Hudson NY  The employer did not provide training to employees on recognition and avoidance of hazards of removing underground storage tanks containing residues of petroleum hydrocarbon products (e.g., No. 2 fuel oil) before assigning them to perform that type of work.  Those employees were exposed to hazards such as an explosion hazard as they used a STIHL TS 420 cut-off saw to cut such a tank, creating sparks that ignited vapors from the tank, causing  an explosion; on or about 05/07/15.

Issued

2015-11-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.850(e): The employer had not determined if any type of hazardous chemicals, gases, explosives, flammable materials or similar dangerous substances were present in any pipes, tanks, or other equipment on the property.  Where the presence of such substances was apparent, purging and testing were not performed and the hazard was not eliminated before demolition was started.   (a) Rear of house (near garage) at 65 Hillside Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY   The employer had not determined if hazardous concentrations of petroleum vapors were present in an underground storage tank containing residues of petroleum hydrocarbon products (e.g., No. 2 fuel oil), nor eliminated any related hazard before assigning employees to cut it.  As employees used a STIHL TS 420 cut-off saw to cut the tank, sparks from that cutting operation ignited petroleum vapors from the tank, causing an explosion; on or about 5/7/15   ABATEMENT NOTE:  Among other methods, feasible and acceptable abatement methods to correct these hazards include following recommendations by the American Petroleum Institute for Closure of Underground Storage Tanks in API Recommended Practice 1604, Third Edition, March 1996. (Reaffirmed 2001).   Those recommendations call for, for example, the establishment of procedures to:  (1) Eliminate all potential sources of ignition from the area of the Underground Storage Tank (e.g., smoking materials, non-explosion-proof electrical and internal combustion equipment);   (2) Vent the Underground Storage Tank to free it of vapors while taking care to prevent discharge of static electricity during such venting; and   (3) Test for the presence of hazardous vapor concentrations in and around the work area by using a Combustible Gas Meter.

Issued

2015-11-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical (Construction reference 1926.59):  (a) Rear of house (near garage) at 65 Hillside Ave Hasting-on-Hudson NY   As employees were exposed to hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to No. 2 fuel oil when removing an underground storage tank, the employer did not maintain copies safety data sheets for No. 2 Fuel Oil; On or about 05/07/15.

Issued

2015-11-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area (Construction reference 1926.59):  a) Rear of house by garage, 65 Hillside Ave Hasting-on-Hudson NY  As employees were exposed to hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to No. 2 fuel oil when removing an underground storage tank, the employer had not provided them with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment; On or about 05/07/15.