OSHA Inspection: DYNAMIC RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,070 · Current $3,549 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1): All places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms and walking-working surfaces were not kept clean, orderly and in sanitary condition.    Employees are exposed to a tripping hazards when having to walk around 55 gallon drums of ammunition in order to get to their stations. Located in building #4, there are 55 gallon drums placed everywhere there is space available, employees have to walk on pallets in order to get to their stations. The warehouse has many 55 gallon drums that the forklift can barely maneuver around without hitting one of the drums.

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $7,606 · Current $5,324 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.133(a)(3): The employer did not ensure that employees wearing prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards wears eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design or wears eye protection that can be worn over the prescription lenses.    Employees are exposed to struck-by eye hazards from small metal fragments getting into their eyes from loading brass, filling brass, and or sorting brass. Employees are required to wear safety glasses prior to entering onto the plant floor. Employees who wear prescription glasses are not required to wear safety glasses or side shields while on the plant floor in order to protect their eyes while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards.

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $8,873 · Current $6,211 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.141(g)(2): Employees were permitted to consume food or beverage in area(s) exposed to toxic materials     The results of wipe sampling indicate employees are exposed to lead ingestion hazards. Employees are allowed to eat and drink in the break rooms and at their works stations creating an ingestion hazard of lead. There is no process or procedure in place to ensure the accumulations of lead is prevented. This was most recently documented on June 13, 2017 at Research Technologies located at 5295 300th Street Albany.     (a)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 19.8610 micrograms at the second story break room sink.    (b)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 61.4660 micrograms at building #4 wood workstation    (c)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 172.2000 micrograms at building #4 maroon workstation  (d) Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 77.748 micrograms at the first floor break room sink  (e)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 21.7940 micrograms at the first floor break room table

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1025(h)(1): All surfaces were not maintained as free as practicable of accumulations of lead:       The results of wipe sampling indicate employees are exposed to lead ingestion hazards. Employees are allowed to eat and drink in the break rooms and at their works stations creating an ingestion hazard of lead. The employer has taken no action to provide a procedure or put a process in place to adequately remove lead from the surfaces where employees are authorized to eat and drink. There is no process or procedure in place to ensure the accumulations of lead is prevented. This was most recently documented on June 13, 2017 at Research Technologies located at 5295 300th Street Albany.     (a)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 19.8610 micrograms at the second story break room sink.    (b)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 61.4660 micrograms at building #4 wood workstation    (c)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 172.2000 micrograms at building #4 maroon workstation  (d) Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 77.748 micrograms at the first floor break room sink  (e)  Employees are exposed to lead hazards of 21.7940 micrograms at the first floor break room table

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $7,606 · Current $5,324 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.303(g)(1): Sufficient access and working space was not provided and maintained about all electric equipment (operating at 600 volts, nominal, or less to ground) to permit ready and safe operation and maintenance of such equipment:    Employees were exposed to electrical shock hazards when electrical panels of 110 volts were left opened and blocked by 55 gallon drums of brass. Employees were exposed to the hazard of electrical shock in the breezeway headed into the warehouse when adequate working space in front of various electrical panel boxes were not maintained clear of all hazards. The electrical panel boxes were blocked by 55 gallon drums.

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $6,338 · Current $4,437 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(b)(1): Unused openings in boxes, cabinets, or fittings were not effectively closed:    mployees were exposed to an electrical shock hazard. Just outside of the warehouse there were two electrical panel boxes, each of 110 volts, were not effectively closed. This facility works in and around ammunition; loading, sorting, packing and distributing.

Issued

Aug 16, 2017

Abate by

Dec 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $7,606 · Current $5,324 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:    Employees were exposed to hazardous chemicals. The employer did not develop or implement a Hazard Communication program.  Employees on the plant floor were exposed to hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to lead from spent ammunition, during the reloading process.