OSHA Inspection: BUTLER WIRE & METAL PRODUCTS INC.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $4,276 · Current $2,351 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative:    (a)     There was no written lock out program for energy control that included machine specific lock out procedures and employee training for machines such as the Pave Variform CNC wire bending machine.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,138 · Current $1,175 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(q)(1): Any power-operated industrial truck not in safe operating condition was not taken out of service, and/or repairs were not made by authorized personnel:    (a)     The TCM forklift had the key broken off in the ignition switch and had not been taken out of service until it was repaired.    (b)     The Yale forklift had the shift lever tied up using nylon plastic cable ties and had not been taken out of service until repaired.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $4,276 · Current $2,351 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1): One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks:    (a)     On or about August 25, 2016 at the Pave Variform CNC wire bending machine there was no guard or device used to prevent employee access to the movement of the shuttle at the front of the machine.      (b)     On or about August 25, 2016 at the Pave Variform CNC wire bending machine there was no guard or device used to prevent employee access to the movement of the CNC wire bending heads at the front of the machine.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $4,276 · Current $2,351 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met:    (a)     There was no written chemical hazard communication program developed that addressed the issues of maintaining safety data sheets, container labeling and employee training for employees working with chemicals such as welding gases and welding wires.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not ensure that Safety Data Sheets were readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):      (a)     Employees work with chemicals such as welding gases and welding wires and there were no safety data sheets maintained in the production area.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 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)     There had been no chemical hazard communication training conducted, covering the topics listed at 1910.1200(h)(1) and 1910.1200(h)(2) for employees working with chemicals such as welding gases and welding wires.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $400 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.4(a): The employer did not record each work-related fatality, injury or illness case that resulted in the general recording criteria on the OSHA Form 300 or equivalent:      (a)     On or about September 20, 2016, the employer did not record the following workplace injury on the OSHA Form 300 or equivalent for the calendar year 2016.      1.     On or about August 25, 2016 an employee experienced lost work time and received a work restriction due to a broken left middle finger while unjamming a machine.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of 29 CFR 1910.134, in written or oral format to employees who wear respirators when such use was not required by the employer:    (a)     For employees that wear the disposable filtering facepiece respirators the Appendix D information was not provided.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(b)(2): Listed or labeled electrical equipment was not used or installed in accordance with instructions included in the listing or labeling:  (a)     At the front of the Pave Variform CNC wire bending machine the flexible conduit containing wires for the E-stop and the foot control pedal was pulled from its fastener.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Oct 13, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(b)(7)(i): Unused openings in boxes, raceways, auxiliary gutters, cabinets, equipment cases, or housings were not effectively closed to afford protection substantially equivalent to the wall of the equipment:  (a)     At the Accupress #7606 press brake the main electrical disconnect had an unused opening.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(1): The employer with a workplace or work operation covered by this standard did not determine the 8-hour time-weighted average exposure for each employee exposed to chromium (VI):    (a)     There had been no initial determination of employee exposure to chromium (VI) for employees spot welding (resistance welding) the stainless steel wire.      The employer is to make this determination in accordance with either paragraph (d)(2), the scheduled monitoring option, or paragraph (d)(3), the performance-oriented option.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(l)(1)(iii): The employer did not include chromium (VI) in the hazard communication program established to comply with the HCS (� 1910.1200):      (a)     There had been no training on health hazards such as cancer, eye irritation and skin sensitization regarding the generation of hexavalent chromium while spot welding (resistance welding) the stainless steel wire.      Employers shall ensure that each employee has access to labels on containers of chromium (VI) and to safety data sheets, and is trained in accordance with the requirements of HCS and paragraph (l)(2) of this section.

Issued

Sep 30, 2016

Abate by

Dec 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(l)(2)(i)(A): The employer did not provide appropriate information and training for all employees exposed to chromium (VI), in that employees could not demonstrate knowledge of the contents of the Chromium (VI) standard, 29 CFR 1910.1026:    (a)     There had been no training on the contents of the OSHA chromium (VI) standard regarding the generation of hexavalent chromium while spot welding (resistance welding) the stainless steel wire.