OSHA Inspection: AMSTED RAIL - GROVEPORT

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $6,371 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): General. The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.    a. At the workplace, the employer did not provide employees who worked in the Sand Plant area with a medical evaluation before employees were required to wear a half mask tight fitting respirator.

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): The employer shall ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator is fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator, whenever a different respirator facepiece (size, style, model or make) is used, and at least annually thereafter.    a. At the workplace, the employer did not ensure that employees working in the Sand Plant, Mold Repair, and Spray Booth areas who were required to wear a tight-fitting facepiece respirator were fit tested before initial use of the respirator and annually thereafter. Employees working in the Ladle Repair area were provided with tight-fitting facepiece respirators and were not provided with a fit test at least annually.

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $12,675

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(g)(1)(I): The employer shall not permit respirators with tight-fitting facepieces to be worn by employees who have:    29 CFR 1910.134(g)(1)(i)(A): Facial hair that comes between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the face or that interferes with valve function; or    a. At the workplace, the employer did not require employees working in the Ladle Repair area and the Spray Booth area who were provided with and used tight-fitting facepiece respirators to shave facial hair that interfered with the face to facepiece seal.

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $12,675 · Current $12,675

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k): Training and information. This paragraph requires the employer to provide effective training to employees who are required to use respirators. The training must be comprehensive, understandable, and recur annually, and more often if necessary. This paragraph also requires the employer to provide the basic information on respirators in Appendix D of this section to employees who wear respirators when not required by this section or by the employer to do so.    a. At the workplace, the employer did not provide respiratory protection training to employees working in the Mold Repair area, Spray Booth area, and Sand Plant area before requiring respirators to be worn.

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $69,713 · Current $0 Reduced

Hazardous substances 9010

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1000(c):     An employee's exposure to any substance listed in Tables Z-1, Z-2, or Z-3 of this section shall be limited in accordance with the requirements of the following paragraphs of this section. An employee's exposure to any substance listed in Table Z-3, in any 8-hour work shift of a 40-hour work week, shall not exceed the 8-hour time weighted average limit given for that substance in the table.    On March 14, 2017, employees working in the Refractory Ladle Repair area, the Tube Assembly Area, and the Sand Plant sand mixing area were exposed to respirable crystalline silica in excess of the 8-hour time weighted average limit (TWA) for the permissible exposure limit provided in Table Z-3:    c. A Tube Builder employee performing tube assembly duties was exposed to an 8-hour TWA for respirable crystalline quartz silica of 3.1 milligrams per cubic meter air during a 459 minute sampling period. This exposure level was 1.75 times the calculated permissible exposure limit of 1.76 milligrams per cubic meter air. Zero exposure was assumed for the 21 minutes that were not sampled.     d. A Sand Plant employee performing sand mixing duties was exposed to an 8-hour TWA for respirable crystalline quartz silica of 1.3 milligrams per cubic meter air during a 431 minute sampling period. This exposure level was 1.52 times the calculated permissible exposure limit of 0.884 milligrams per cubic meter air. Zero exposure was assumed for the 49 minutes that were not sampled.     Amsted Rail, Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1910.1000(c) which was contained in OSHA inspection number 793422, citation number 1, item number 3a and was affirmed as a final order on March 21, 2013 with respect to a workplace located at 3900 Bixby Rd, Groveport, OH 43125.

Issued

Jun 27, 2017

Abate by

Feb 10, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 9010

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1000(e):  An employee's exposure to any substance listed in Tables Z-1, Z-2, or Z-3 of this section shall be limited in accordance with the requirements of the following paragraphs of this section. To achieve compliance with paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section, administrative or engineering controls must first be determined and implemented whenever feasible.     On March 14, 2017, employees working in the Refractory Ladle Repair area, the Tube Assembly Area, and the Sand Plant sand mixing area were exposed to respirable crystalline silica in excess of the 8-hour time weighted average limit (TWA) for the permissible exposure limit provided in Table Z-3:    c. A Tube Builder employee performing tube assembly duties was exposed to an 8-hour TWA for respirable crystalline quartz silica of 3.1 milligrams per cubic meter air during a 459 minute sampling period. This exposure level was 1.75 times the calculated permissible exposure limit of 1.76 milligrams per cubic meter air. Zero exposure was assumed for the 21 minutes that were not sampled.     d. A Sand Plant employee performing sand mixing duties was exposed to an 8-hour TWA for respirable crystalline quartz silica of 1.3 milligrams per cubic meter air during a 431 minute sampling period. This exposure level was 1.52 times the calculated permissible exposure limit of 0.884 milligrams per cubic meter air. Zero exposure was assumed for the 49 minutes that were not sampled.   Abatement Note:    Abatement Note:    Step 1: Effective respiratory protection in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134 shall be provided and used by exposed employees as an interim protective measure until feasible engineering and/or administrative controls can be implemented, or whenever such controls fail to reduce employee exposure to within permissible exposure limits.     Step 2: Submit to the Area Director a written, detailed plan of abatement outlining a schedule for the implementation of engineering and/or administrative measures to control employee exposure to hazardous substances as referenced in this citation. This plan shall include, at the minimum, target dates for the following actions which must be consistent with the abatement dates required by this citation:        (1) Evaluation of engineering/administrative control options;      (2) Selection of optimum control methods and completion of design      (3) Procurement, installation, and operation of selected control measures; and      (4) Testing and acceptance or modification/redesign of controls.    All proposed control measures shall be approved for each particular use by a competent industrial hygienist, certified industrial ventilation specialist experienced in complex processes, or other technically qualified person.    Step 3: Abatement shall have been completed by the implementation of feasible engineering and/or administrative controls upon verification of their effectiveness (by performance of air monitoring) in achieving compliance.    Amsted Rail, Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1910.1000(e) which was contained in OSHA inspection number 793422, citation number 1, item number 3b and was affirmed as a final order on March 21, 2013 with respect to a workplace located at 3900 Bixby Rd, Groveport, OH 43125.