OSHA Inspection: ANIMAL NUTRITION SYSTEMS

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Abate by

Oct 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,380 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2): In any workplace where respirators are necessary to protect the health of the employees or whenever respirators are required by the employer, the employer did not establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures:    Plant - The employer did not ensure that a written respiratory protection program was established and implemented for those employees required to wear respiratory protection, including Moldex N-95 respirators.    The respiratory protection program shall include, at a minimum, procedures for selecting respirators; medical evaluations; fit testing; procedures for proper use in routine and reasonably foreseeable emergency situations; procedures for cleaning, storing, inspecting, repairing and discarding respirators; employee training regarding respiratory hazards they are exposed to, proper uses and limitations of respirators; and procedures for regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the respirator program.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Abate by

Oct 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee was fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace:     Plant - The employer supplied employees with Moldex N-95 respirators and they are worn as a condition of work when mixing supplemental dairy cow feed.  The employer did not ensure that the employee was medically evaluated.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.23(d)(1): The employer did not ensure that very flight of stairs having 4 or more risers was equipped with standard stair railings or standard handrails.   Plant  - The stairs leading to the second level break room did not have a standard railing running the full length of the stairs on the left side.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Abate by

Oct 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2): The employer did not verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification which included the requirements as outlined in 29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2):     Plant - Employees have been provided personal protective equipment such as gloves, safety glasses and respirators to protect them against work place hazards.  A hazard assessment has not been performed to include the following elements:          1.  Select and have each affected employee use the types of PPE that will protect them from the hazards identified in the hazard assessment;  2.  Communicate the selection decisions to each affected employee and;  3.  Select PPE that properly fits each affected employee.          *ABATEMENT NOTE: The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Abate by

Oct 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance shall be conducted at least once every three years.     Plant - The employer did not provide a fork lift driver with forklift refresher training at least once every three years.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1): Powered industrial truck(s) found to be in need of repair, defective, or in any way unsafe had not been taken out of service until restored to safe operating condition(s):        Plant - Two fork lifts were defective in the following ways:   a. Nissan Optima 30 fork lift  - The  brake lights did not illuminate when the brake pedal was depressed.  b. Nissan 50 fork lift - The  brake lights did not illuminate when the brake pedal was depressed and the horn did not sound.

Issued

Oct 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(iv): The details of the hazard communication program developed by the employer did not include an explanation of the labels received on shipped containers and the workplace labeling system used by their employer; the safety data sheet, including the order of information and how employee could obtain and use the appropriate hazard information:        Plant - The employer failed to train exposed employees on the new label elements (e.g., pictograms and signal words) and the new SDS formation by December 2, 2013, as required by the revised Hazard Communication Standard.  Employees handle and use hazardous chemicals such as, but not limited to, zinc, magnesium, and copper powders as well as other feed additives.