OSHA Inspection: KAW SERVICES

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,070 · Current $5,070

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:  The employer is failing to protect employees from respiratory hazards. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer does not have a written respiratory protection program in place to protect employees from known respiratory hazards such as overexposure to toxic chemicals, asphyxiation, and oxygen deficient atmospheres.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $8,873

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form:    The employer is failing to protect employees from respiratory hazards. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer is not adequately identifying and evaluating respiratory hazards associated with the tank cleaning and servicing processes. The employer did not provide the necessary personal protective equipment in order to protect the employees from the contaminants chemical state and physical form. The environment inside the tank was not properly assessed prior to the employee starting the tank cleaning process.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(5)(i): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not evaluate permit space conditions when entry operations were conducted by testing conditions in the permit space to determine if acceptable entry conditions existed before entry:    The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazardous atmospheres associated with permit required confined space entries. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer is not protecting employees during the process when requiring employees to break the plane several times throughout the tank cleaning without first testing the hazardous atmosphere.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $8,873

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(2): The employer did not inform exposed employees, by posting danger signs or by any other equally effective means, of the existence and location of and the danger posed by the permit spaces:    The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards associated with permit required confined space entries. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer is not posting signs on, or in the immediate area of, truck tank trailers to alert employees of the presence of permit required confined spaces.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2018

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(6): The employer did not provide at least one attendant outside the permit space into which entry was authorized for the duration of entry operations:     The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards associated with permit required confined space entries. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer did not provide at least one attendant outside the permit-required confined space during entry operations.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2018

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $8,873

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(3): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations:    The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards associated with safe means of entry, procedures, and practices for employees to enter permit required confined spaces. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068. The employer is not protecting employees during the tank cleaning process in that the procedures developed by the employer do not identify conditions of breaking the plane with any part of the body, to include the face, as making entry into the permit-required confined space.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2018

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $12,675

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(e)(1): Before entry was authorized, the employer did not document the completion of measures required by 29 CFR 1910.146(d)(3) by preparing an entry permit:      The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards associated with permit required confined space entries. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068.  The employer is not protecting employees during the tank cleaning process when requiring employees to break the plane several times throughout the tank cleaning process for inspection purposes without first completing an entry permit.

Issued

Jul 17, 2017

Abate by

Aug 21, 2018

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(g)(1): The employer did not provide training so that all employees whose work was regulated by 29 CFR 1910.146 (permit required confined spaces) acquired the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of the duties assigned under 29 CFR 1910.146:    The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards associated with permit required confined space entries. This was most recently documented on February 1, 2017 at 9100 West Liberty Drive, Pleasant Valley, Missouri 64068.  The employer is not training employees to recognize that breaking the plane constitutes entry into a permit required confined space.