OSHA Inspection: CAPITAL HARDWARE SUPPLY, INC.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $2,100

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): A written respiratory protection program that included the provisions in 29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i) - (ix) with worksite specific procedures was not established and implemented for required respirator use:   a)  Production: Employees were required to wear a negative pressure air purifying respirator (3M half-face, P-100) during the removal of dust bags from the dust collector (Donaldson Torit PowerCore).  The employer did not develop and implement a worksite-specific written respiratory protection program, on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): 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:   a) Fabrication/Production Dept.: Medical evaluation to determine the employees ability to wear a respirator was not provided to those who were required to wear a negative pressure respirator, on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Employee(s) using tight-fitting facepiece respirators were not fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator:   a) Fabrication/Production Dept.: Employees were required to wear a negative pressure air purifying respirator (3M half-face, P-100) but were not fit-tested prior to initial use of the respirator, on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employer had not developed or implemented a written hazard communication program included the requirements outlined in 29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) and (e)(1)(ii):    a) Production/Fabrication Dept.: Employees are engaged in cutting steel and galvanized steel using plasma torch cutting releasing hazardous chemicals such as, but not limited to, chromium, manganese, nickel, and aluminum during the process.  The employer did not develop and implement a worksite specific written hazard communication program, on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):    a) Production/Fabrication: The material safety data sheets for steel and galvanized steel were not readily accessible to the employees during work shifts, on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:    a) Production/fabrication Dept.:  Employees were not provided the information and training on the hazard(s) associated with exposure to hazardous chemicals such as, but not limited to, chromium dust, aluminum, nickel, and manganese on or about 10/02/15.

Issued

Jan 5, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(2)(i): The employer using the scheduled monitoring option did not perform initial monitoring to determine the 8-hour time-weighted average exposure to chromium (VI) for each employee on the basis of a sufficient number of personal breathing zone air samples to accurately characterize full shift exposure on each shift, for each job classification, in each work area:   a) Fabrication/Production Dept.: Initial monitoring to determine the 8-hour time weighted average exposure to hexavalent chromium was not performed, on or about 10/02/15.