OSHA Inspection: LITTLE ENTERPRISES, INC.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $2,500 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.23(c)(8): The employer did not ensure that the top cap and the top step of a step ladder were not used as steps:    Location: Machine shop    On or about September 19, 2017, an employee utilized the top step of the 4-foot step ladder to un-jam chips of the Applied Recovery Systems Puck Master hopper.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1): The employer did not assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE):    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not assess the workplace of hazards such as, but not limited to, employees that transfer ZEP, Morado Super Cleaner (contains ethylene glycol and sodium hydroxide) and the employees that add water to lead/acid batteries of the powered industrial trucks.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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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:  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not assess and certify the workplace of hazards through a written hazard assessment for, but not limited to, utilizing respiratory protection while manufacturing, polishing, and cleaning parts.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.133(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation:  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employees that transfer ZEP, Morado Super Cleaner (contains ethylene glycol and sodium hydroxide) and that adds water to lead/acid batteries of the powered industrial trucks did not use the required personal protective equipment/clothing for the eyes and face.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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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:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not perform a hazard evaluation of employees that wear respirators for tasks such as but not limited to, running CNC machines and cutting with coolant, washroom operations, deburring, sanding and polishing various metal parts.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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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:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not medically evaluate employees that are required to wear half face respirators and filtering face piece respirators while debarring, sanding, polishing various metal parts, and running CNC machines while cutting with coolant.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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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):  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not fit test employees that wore half face respirators and filtering face piece respirators while debarring, sanding, polishing various metal parts, and running CNC machines while cutting with coolant.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not develop and utilize energy control procedures to protect employees from the unexpected start up and amputation hazards from performing maintenance and servicing to the following but not limited to machines;    1. Applied Recovery Systems Puck Master  2. Mazak Integrex e-1060V/8 II  3 and 4. Fanuc small robot area - two Mazak Integrex 100

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i): The employer did not provide adequate training to ensure that the purpose and function of the energy control program was understood by employees:  Location: Machine shop  On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not instruct and train each authorized and affected employee who cleans metal chips out of a hopper of the Applied Recovery Systems Puck Master in the methods and means necessary for energy isolation and control.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $2,500 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.151(c): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not provide a drenching facility for quick and/or immediate use to employees that transfer ZEP, Morado Super Cleaner (contains ethylene glycol and sodium hydroxide) and that adds water to the lead/acid batteries of the powered industrial trucks.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(ii): The employer did not ensure that each operator had successfully completed the training required by paragraph (l), except as permitted by paragraph (l)(5), prior to permitting an employee to operate a powered industrial truck:    Location: Facility    On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not evaluate a powered industrial truck operator prior to being permitted to operate powered industrial trucks.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance was not being conducted at least once every three years:  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not re-evaluate powered industrial truck operators' performance every three years.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1): One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks:    Location: Saw Area    On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not provide a guarding device on the unused portion of the blade on the following horizontal bandsaws to protect employees from ingoing nip points;  Instance 1. MSC horizontal bandsaw, model #32152191,  Instance 2: Hyd Mech horizontal bandsaw, model #S-20A.  Instance 3: Victor vertical bandsaw, model # DCM-5    Location: Polishing Department    On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not provide one or more methods of machine guarding, such as a chuck guard, to protect employees from entanglement hazards created by the unguarded rotating chuck when the following lathes were used to hand polish parts;  Instance 4: Tong-IL manual lathe  Instance 5: Claung-Metosa manual lathe,  Instance 6: YCL-1640 manual lathe    Location: Machine shop    Instance 7: On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not provide a guarding device around the moving dumping station and fixed steel uprights on the Applied Recovery Systems Puck Master to protect employees from pinch point hazards.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.212(b): Machine(s) designed for fixed location(s) were not securely anchored to prevent walking or moving:    Location: Saw Area    On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not mount or anchor the Jet 6-inch pedestal bench grinder, model # JBG-6A and Baldor pedestal bench grinder, serial # 81703270369 to the floor to prevent the equipment from walking or moving while in operation.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,298 · Current $1,600 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.215(a)(4): Work rest(s) on grinding machinery were not adjusted closely to the wheel with a maximum opening of one eighth inch:    Location: Saw Area    On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not adequately adjust the adjustable work rest on the Jet 6-inch pedestal bench grinder, model # JBG-6A, to protect employees from in-going nip points.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9): The distance between the abrasive wheel periphery(s) and the adjustable tongue or the end of the safety guard peripheral member at the top exceeded one fourth inch:  Location: Saw Area  On or about September 19, 2017, the employer did not adequately adjust the adjustable tongue guard on the Jet 6-inch pedestal bench grinder, model # JBG-6A, to protect employees from in-going nip points.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1): Pulley(s) with part(s) seven feet or less from the floor or work platform were not guarded in accordance with the requirements specified in 29 CFR 1910.219(m) and (o):    Location: Polishing department    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not guard the belts and pulleys of the Bridgeport drill press to protect employees from ingoing nip points.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $3,000 Reduced

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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:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not develop a written hazard communication program for employees that perform the following  but not limited to tasks;  1. Transferring ZEP, Morado Super Cleaner (contains ethylene glycol and sodium hydroxide) to clean the shop floors,   2. Adding water to lead/acid batteries,  3. Sanding, polishing, deburring, and clean various metal parts.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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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:  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not provide hazard communication training on hazardous chemicals in their work area to all employees upon their initial assignment while working with the following chemicals such as, but not limited to; 1. Facility - an employee exposed to Morado Super Cleaner (a corrosive floor cleaning chemical) while transferring the chemical from a 55-gallon drum to a small container, 2. Polish department - employees exposed to Hexavalent Chromium, Lead, and Cadmium while deburring, sanding, polishing, and cleaning various metal parts, 3. Machine shop - an employee exposed to corrosives while adding water to lead/acid batteries to the powered industrial trucks.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $726 · Current $300 Reduced

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:    Location: Facility    On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not develop the elements of a written respiratory protection program with worksite specific procedures for the employees required to wear N-95 filtered face piece respirators and half face piece respirators.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): Training was not provided prior to requiring employees to use a respirator in the workplace:  Location: Facility  On or about September 12, 2017, the employer did not provide training prior to requiring employees to wear filtering face piece respirators and half face respirators while performing polishing and machining work.

Issued

Mar 2, 2018

Abate by

Apr 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $726 · Current $300 Reduced

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29 CFR 1910.134(h)(2)(i): Respirators were not stored to protect them from damage, contamination, dust, sunlight, extreme temperatures, excessive moisture, and damaging chemicals or  were not packed or stored to prevent deformation of the facepiece and exhalation valve:    Location: Polishing department    On or about September 19, 2017, employees left half mask respirators in the open work environment, exposing the respirator to damage, contamination, dust, and moisture.