OSHA Inspection: CONN-SELMER, INC

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $5,345 · Current $5,345

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.38(c)(4): The emergency action plan did not include procedures to account for all employees after evacuation:  On or about August 24, 2016, the employers emergency action plan did not include specific procedures outlining how employees will be accounted for following an evacuation.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.38(f)(1): The employer did not train employees on the emergency action plan when it was developed or when the employee was assigned initially to a job:  On or about August 24, 2016, the emergency action plan had not been reviewed with employees upon initial hire to the facility. Employees were not familiar with the designated meeting location.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Penalty

Initial $5,345 · Current $5,345

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:  On or before August 24, 2016, voluntary use of full face air purifying respirators was permitted for employees in the wastewater treatment area of the facility. The information contained in Appendix D was not provided.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user:  On or before August 24, 2016, employees in the wastewater treatment area were permitted to voluntarily use full face air purifying respirators but were not provided medical evaluations.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 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:  On or about August 31, 2016, fit tests had not been administered to employees required to wear full face air purifying respirators when manually adding any chemicals to the wastewater treatment system.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(5): Respiratory protection retraining was not conducted annually:  On or about August 24, 2016, employees were required to wear air purifying respirators during polishing operations and had not received respiratory protection training on an annual basis.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $8,908 · Current $2,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(6)(ii): Except as provided in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(7) and 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(8), the employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the product identifier and words, pictures, symbols, or combination thereof, which provide at least general information regarding the hazards of the chemicals and which, in conjunction with the other information immediately available to employees under the hazard communication program, would provide employees with the specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the hazardous chemical:    On or about August 24, 2016, labels on chemicals in the wastewater treatment area of the facility were not supplemented with pictograms, pictures, or symbols to clearly communicate specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the chemicals to employees.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii): Employee training did not include the physical and health hazards of the chemicals in the work area:   On or about August 24, 2016, wastewater treatment employees worked with or around chemicals including but not limited to sodium metabisulfite, sulfuric acid, caustic soda, sodium hypochlorite, and silver cyanide salts. Employees had not received training on the specific hazards of these chemicals along with the measures employees can take to protect themselves from these hazards.

Issued

Nov 18, 2016

Abate by

Dec 8, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(iii): Employee training did not include the measures employees can take to protect themselves from chemical hazards, including specific procedures the employer had implemented to protect employees from exposure to hazardous chemicals, such as appropriate work practices, emergency procedures and personal protective equipment to be used:  On or about August 24, 2016, the employer had not developed, implemented, and trained employees on adequate procedures for the addition of chemicals to the wastewater treatment system in that there was no established method for employees to document and communicate any additions. Employees were exposed to chemical incompatibilities and the generation of toxic gases as a result of chemicals being inadvertently added to the system.