OSHA Inspection: QUALITY ASSURED INDUSTRIAL COATINGS, LLC

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $3,880

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:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that all employees required to wear tight-fitting, negative pressure respirators and supplied-air respirators had received a medical evaluation to determine their fitness to use the respirator prior to fit-testing or using the respirators in the workplace.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

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):  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that all employees wearing tight-fitting, negative pressure respirators had been fit tested prior to being required to use the respirators in the workplace.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(c):  Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1926.1203(d), the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations:    At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit-space entry operations, including, but not limited to, the following:  a) Determining that, in the event the ventilation system stops working,  monitoring methods will detect an increase in atmospheric hazard levels in sufficient time for the entrants to safely exit the permit space;   b) Verifying that conditions in the permit space are acceptable for entry throughout the duration of an authorized entry, and ensuring that employees are not allowed to enter into, or remain in, a permit space with a hazardous atmosphere.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(e)(1): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1926.1203(d), the employer did not test conditions in the permit space to determine if acceptable entry conditions existed before changes to the space's natural ventilation were made and before entry was authorized:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that atmospheric conditions in permit spaces were tested prior to making changes to the space's natural ventilation.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(e)(2): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1926.1203(d), the employer did not continuously monitor the atmospheric hazards and did not demonstrate that the equipment for continuously monitoring the hazard is not commercially available, nor that periodic monitoring was conducted in sufficient frequency to ensure that the atmospheric hazards were controlled at safe levels:    At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that atmospheric hazards were continuously monitored while employees occupied the permit space when performing painting operations.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(j): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1926.1203(d), the employer did not develop and implement a system for the preparation, issuance, use, and cancellation of entry permits as required by 29 CFR 1926.1206, including the safe termination of entry operations under both planned and emergency conditions:   At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not develop or implement procedures for preparing, issuing, using, and cancelling entry permits for work being performed in permit spaces within a water tower, nor did the employer develop or implement procedures for the safe termination of entry operations under both planned and emergency conditions.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1205(a): Before entry was authorized, the employer did not document the completion of measures required by 29 CFR 1926.1204(c) by preparing an entry permit:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that the measures specified in 29 CFR 1926.1204(c) were completed and documented on an entry permit prior to authorizing entry into a permit-required confined space.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,772 · Current $2,772

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1207(a): The employer did not provide training to each employee, at no cost to the employee, and did not ensure that the employee possessed the understanding, knowledge and skills necessary for the safe performance of duties assigned by this standard:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that each employee was trained and that employees possessed the requisite understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of duties under the permit-required confined space standard.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $3,880

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1210(d):  The employer did not ensure that each entry supervisor verified that rescue services were available and that the means for summoning them were operable, and that the employer will be notified as soon as the services become unavailable:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not ensure that the entry supervisor/foreman verified that the designated rescue service, QEM Fire District, was available while work was being performed at the water tower, and that the rescue service provided notification when services became unavailable.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1211(a)(2):  The employer did not evaluate the rescue service's ability, in terms of proficiency with rescue-related tasks and equipment, to function appropriately while rescuing entrants from the particular permit space or types of permit spaces identified:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer did not evaluate the ability of the designated rescue service, QEM Fire District, to conduct confined space rescue operations.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,880 · Current $3,880

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1211(a)(4):  The employer did not inform each rescue team or service of the hazards they may confront when called on to perform rescue at the site:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer failed to inform the designated rescue service, QEM Fire District, of the hazards they may encounter if contacted to perform a rescue at the site, which includes but is not limited to, confined spaces (non- and permit-required), flammable paint vapors, and potential chemical exposures above the permissible exposure limit.

Issued

Apr 2, 2018

Abate by

Jul 22, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1211(a)(5): The employer who had designated rescue and emergency services did not provide the selected rescue team or service  with access to all permit spaces from which rescue could  be necessary, so that the rescue service could develop appropriate rescue plans and practice rescue operations:  At the Grafton Water Tower worksite, the employer failed to provide the designated rescue service, QEM Fire District, with access to all permit spaces from which rescue may be required, so that the service could develop and practice rescue operations.