OSHA Inspection: LLANO LOGISTICS INC.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $9,054 · Current $6,338 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.37(b)(5): Each doorway or passage along an exit access that could be mistaken for an exit was not marked "Not an Exit" or similar designation, or be identified by a sign indicating its actual use:    In the engine room, the employer did not ensure that a door that continued from the new engine room to the old engine room was marked "Not an Exit".

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $8,873 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(4): The employer did not develop and implement safe work practices to provide for the control of hazards during operations such as lockout/tagout; confined space entry; opening process equipment or piping; and control over entrance into a facility by maintenance, contractor, laboratory, or other support personnel:    The employer did not ensure that safe work practices, which include specific control over entrance into the machinery room procedures, were established and implemented for maintenance, contractor, or other support personnel.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $10,864 · Current $7,605 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.119(g)(2): Refresher training was not provided at least every three years to each employee involved in operating a process to assure that the employee understands and adheres to the current operating procedures of the process:    The employer did not ensure that refresher training was provided to the ammonia refrigeration operator involved in the process safety management of the refrigeration system at least every three years.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.119(g)(3): The employer did not ascertain that each employee involved in operating a process had received and understood the training required by this paragraph. The employer had not prepared a record which contained the identity of the employee, the date of training, and the means used to verify that the employee understood the training.    The employer did not ensure that any training received by operators of the ammonia refrigeration system was documented in a record which contained the identity of the employee, the date of training, and the means used to verify that the employee understood the training. The employer did not have records documenting the training of each employee involved in operating and/or maintaining the ammonia refrigeration system, on the safety and health hazards, emergency shutdown operations and safe work practices, for the refrigeration operator.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $8,873 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Employee(s) using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator were not annually fit tested:    The employer did not ensure an employee exposed to chemical hazards such as ammonia while draining oil from oil pots was fit tested, annually.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $8,873 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:      The employer did not have equipment-specific energy control procedures for the following equipment for activities covered by 1910.147. The lack of documentation of machine-specific energy control procedures expose employees to unexpected struck-by, caught-by and electrical hazards.         a) Ammonia compressors (C-1-C-4) in the engine room.         b) Screw compressor (C-5) in the engine room.         c) Condensers (EC-1&2) throughout the facility.              d) Re-circulators (V-1 & V-4) in the engine room.         e) High pressure receiver (V-1) in the engine room.         f) High temp accumulator (V-2) in the engine room.         g) Automatic purger (purger-01) in the engine room.

Issued

Mar 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,432 · Current $3,802 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1)(ii): The required working space about electrical equipment rated 600 volts, nominal, or less to ground, was in a passageway or general open space and was not suitably guarded when normally enclosed live parts were exposed for inspection or servicing:    The employer does not ensure that the working space around electrical equipment is used for storage. The employer allowed the storage of materials, such as but not limited to, boxes 5 gallon buckets and old parts adjacent to the electrical panels, inside the MCC room.