OSHA Inspection: THE BREWER COMPANY

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,330 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee was fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace:    On or about August 25, 2017, employees were required to wear tight-fitting half-face respirators while making batches and have not received a medical evaluation.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Abate by

Feb 28, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer did not ensure that employee(s) required to use a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed the appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT):  On or about August 25, 2017, employees were required to wear tight-fitting half-face respirators while making batches and have not received a fit test.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,330 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(1): The employer did not provide effective training to ensure that each employee could demonstrate knowledge of 1910.134(k)(1)(i) - (vii):    On or about August 25, 2017, employees were required to wear tight-fitting half-face respirators while making batches. Employees have not received respiratory protection training in accordance with the standard.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

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:  On or about August 25, 2017, the employer did not provide employees with Appendix D of the respirator standard when voluntarily using N-95 filtering face piece respirators.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Abate by

Feb 28, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,330 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(g)(2): The educational program to familiarize employees with the general principles of fire extinguisher use and the hazards involved with incipient stage fire fighting was not provided to all employees upon initial employment, and at least annually thereafter:    On or about August 25, 2017, the employer did not provide initial and/or annual training on the emergency action plan in case of fire. The employer expects employees to evacuate the building, however employees are not trained on fire extinguishers and/or building evacuation.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Penalty

Initial $9,239 · Current $5,544 Reduced

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:    On or about August 25, 2018, the employer did not provide hazard communication training for employees. Employees work with chemicals including, but not limited to, asphalt, ASTM D-450 Type 1, Black Knight Cold, Mergal K10N, and white coating.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Abate by

Feb 28, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2): The employer did not verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated, the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed, the date(s) of the hazard assessment, and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment:  On or about August 25, 2017, the workplace hazard assessment had not been put in writing and certified with the person conducting the evaluation and the dates the hazard assessment was completed.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(e)(2): Portable fire extinguishers were not visually inspected at least monthly:  On or about August 25, 2017, the employer did not visually inspect fire extinguishers at least monthly.

Issued

Jan 24, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(6)(i): Except as provided in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(7) and 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(8), the employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the information required by 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(1)(i) through 29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(1)(v):  On or about August 25, 2017, the employer did not ensure that storage containers containing white coatings were labeled with the identity of the chemicals. White coatings include, but are not limited to, Permacool Coating White, Fortress White Elastomeric, and Fortress White Acrylic Cement.