OSHA Inspection: HARBOR STEEL, INC.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Nov 15, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1): The employer did not provide training to each employee who is required by this section to use personal protective equipment:       a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., production areas, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were required to wear personal protective equipment while exposed to potential hazards including, but not limited to, flying particles, physical hazards, and chemical exposure hazards.  The employer did not provide employees with training on the personal protective equipment.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(h)(1): Except as provided by paragraphs (h)(2) through (h)(6) of this section, the protective equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), used to comply with this part, was not provided by the employer at no cost to employees:    a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were potentially exposed to hazards including, but not limited to, flying particles, physical hazards, and chemical exposure hazards associated with welding operations.  The employer required employees that performed welding operations to purchase their own personal protective equipment associated with welding tasks onsite.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(h)(5): The employer did not provide replacement Personal Protective Equipment to employees, at no cost, when such equipment was required for protection:    a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees are potentially exposed to hazards including, but not limited to, flying particles, physical hazards, and chemical exposure hazards.  The employer did not provide replacement personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, safety glasses at no cost to the employees.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Dec 17, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,500 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:       a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were required to wear half mask, air purifying respirators (AO Safety brand with cartridges) during spray painting operations.  An employee was not provided with a medical evaluation prior to the use of the respirator onsite.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Dec 17, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Employee(s) using tight-fitting facepiece respirators were not fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator:       a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were required to wear half mask, air purifying respirators (AO Safety brand with cartridges) during spray painting operations.  An employee was not provided with a fit test prior to the use of half mask tight-fitting air purifying respirators.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Dec 17, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:     a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were required to wear half mask, air purifying respirators (AO Safety brand with cartridges) during spray painting operations.    The company did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Dec 17, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): Training was not provided prior to requiring employees to use a respirator in the workplace:     a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees were required to wear half mask, air purifying respirators (AO Safety brand with cartridges) during spray painting operations.  The company had not provided employees with respiratory protection training prior to the use of the half mask air purifying respirators.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Dec 17, 2018

Penalty

Initial $2,217 · Current $1,000 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:    a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees worked with and around hazardous substances including, but not limited to, various metals during stainless steel and carbon steel welding operations and various paints/primers during spray painting operations.  The employer did not provide effective Hazard Communication training for those employees working with and around hazardous substances.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Employers did not have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use:   a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees worked with and around hazardous substances including, but not limited to, various metals during stainless steel and carbon steel welding operations and various paints/primers during spray painting operations.  The employer did not make available a Safety Data Sheet for substances including, but not limited to, stainless steel, and Sherman Williams brand Kem Kromik primers.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(6)(ii): 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 product identifier and words, pictures, symbols, or combination thereof, which provide at least general information regarding the hazards of the chemicals and which, in conjunction with the other information immediately available to employees under the hazard communication program, would provide employees with the specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the hazardous chemical:    a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Secondary containers of products including, but not limited to,  Sherman Williams brand safety yellow enamel "crane paint", were not labeled with the hazards of the hazardous chemical(s) container therein.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1): All places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms, and walking-working surfaces are kept in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition:    a.)    Harbor Steel, Inc., production areas, on or about July 5th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Wipe samples were obtained from the lunch room table in the lunch room area of the facility.  Analytical results indicated the presences of metals, as follows:     1)  Lunch room, lunchroom table surface:  252.54 ug (micrograms) of Iron Oxide; 3.60 ug (micrograms) of Manganese.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.107(g)(7):  "No smoking" signs in large letters on contrasting color background were not conspicuously posted at all spraying areas and paint storage rooms:   a.)    Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees performed spray painting operations with various flammable liquids in the shop area of the facility.  No smoking signs were not posted near the spraying areas and paint storage areas.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 10, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.141(b)(1)(i): Potable water was not provided in all places of employment, for drinking, washing of the person, cooking, washing of foods, washing of cooking or eating utensils, washing of food preparation or processing premises, and personal service rooms:    a)  Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Potable water was not made available to employees onsite in that, water analysis conducted by the employer indicated arsenic levels above the Environmental Protection Agency's Maximum Contaminant Level for the available water sources onsite.  Additionally, employees were required to purchase water if they chose not to drink the well water onsite.

Issued

Sep 13, 2018

Abate by

Oct 31, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(1): The employer with a workplace or work operation covered by this standard did not determine the 8-hour time-weighted average exposure for each employee exposed to chromium (VI):    a.) Harbor Steel, Inc., Shop area, on or about June 27th, 2018 and times prior thereto:  Employees performed welding operations on stainless steel onsite.  The employer did not determine employees potential exposure to hexavalent chromium during welding operations on stainless steel.