OSHA Inspection: USA FANTER CORP., LTD.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(a): Before it begins work at a worksite, each employer must ensure that a competent person identifies all confined spaces in which one or more of the employees it directs may work, and identifies each space that is a permit space, through consideration and evaluation of the elements of that space, including testing as necessary:    On July 7, 2017, at Wet Well A-16, employees were removing a pipe plug inside an unidentified permit required confined space and were exposed to asphyxiation and drowning hazards from toxic gases, fumes and waste water.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(b): The employer had not identified and evaluated the hazards of the permit required confined space before employee entry:  On 7, 2017, at Wet Well A-16, employees were working inside a permit required confined space, attempting to remove a pipe plug, and were exposed to Hydrogen Sulfide gas.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6338.00 · Current $5387.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(e)(2)(ii): When entrance covers were removed the opening was not immediately guarded by a railing, temporary cover, or other temporary barrier that would prevent an accidental fall through the opening and that would protect each employee working in the space from foreign objects entering the space:    On July 7, 2017, and times prior thereto at Wet Well A-16, employees were working immediately adjacent to an uncovered 7.75-feet by 6-feet horizontal opening to a 24-feet deep confined space.  Employees were exposed to falls to the bottom of the confined space

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(e)(2)(iii): Before an employee enters the space, the internal atmosphere must be tested, with a calibrated direct-reading instrument, for oxygen content, for flammable gases and vapors, and for potential toxic air contaminants, in that order. Any employee who enters the space, or that employee's authorized representative, must be provided an opportunity to observe the pre-entry testing required by this paragraph:    On July 7, 2017, at wet Well A-16, employees were attempting to remove a plug while in a permit-required confined space where the internal atmosphere was not tested and were exposed to asphyxiation hazards from hydrogen sulfide gas.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(c)(4): The employer did not purge, inert, flush, or vent the permit space as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards:     On July 7, 2017, at Wet Well A-16, employees were working in a permit-required confined space attempting to remove a plug and were exposed to asphyxiation hazards from hydrogen sulfide gas.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(d)(8): The employer shall provide rescue and emergency equipment needed to comply with paragraph (i) of this section, except to the extent that the equipment is provided by rescue services:    On July 7, 2017, at Wet Well A-16, three workers entered a permit required confined space and were overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas where there was no rescue and emergency equipment available to use for response.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(i): The employer did not develop and implement procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services (including procedures for summoning emergency assistance in the event of a failed non-entry rescue), for rescuing entrants from permit spaces, for providing necessary emergency services to rescued employees, and for preventing unauthorized personnel from attempting a rescue:  On July 7, 2017, at Wet Well A-16, employees were working in a permit required confined space without procedures to summon emergency services and to prevent unauthorized personnel from attempting a rescue, exposing employees to asphyxiation and drowning hazards.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1205(a): Before entry is authorized, each entry employer must document the completion of measures required by �1926.1204(c) by preparing an entry permit.    On July 7, 2017, at the Wet Well A-16, employees were working inside a permit required confined space, exposed to asphyxiation and drowning hazards.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $7542.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1207(a): The employer must provide training to each employee whose work is regulated by this standard, at no cost to the employee, and ensure that the employee possesses the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of the duties assigned under this standard. This training must result in an understanding of the hazards in the permit space and the methods used to isolate, control or in other ways protect employees from these hazards, and for those employees not authorized to perform entry rescues, in the dangers of attempting such rescue:    On July 7, 2017, at the Wet Well A-16, employees who did not understand the hazards of working inside the permit required confined space were removing a pipe plug and were exposed to asphyxiation and drowning hazards from toxic gases, fumes and waste water.

Issued

2017-12-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 1480

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1207(c): The training must establish employee proficiency in the duties required by this standard and must introduce new or revised procedures, as necessary, for compliance with this standard.  On July 7, 2017, at the Wet Well A-16, the employer did not ensure employees understood their roles and responsibilities as authorized attendant, authorized entrant and authorized supervisor. Employees working in the confined space were exposed to asphyxiation and drowning hazards.