PITTSTON, PA —
OSHA Inspection: TRACY RAIL SERVICE, LLC
Complaint inspection · Health discipline
At a glance
On , OSHA opened a complaint health inspection of TRACY RAIL SERVICE, LLC in COXTON RAIL YARDS COXTON ROAD AND NORTH MAIN STREET, PITTSTON, PA 18640 (NAICS 488210). OSHA activity number 343469482.
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Where did this inspection happen?
- Establishment
- TRACY RAIL SERVICE, LLC
- Site address
- COXTON RAIL YARDS COXTON ROAD AND NORTH MAIN STREET
- City
- PITTSTON
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 18640
- Mailing
- POST OFFICE BOX 19160, HOUSTON, TX 77024
What kind of inspection was it?
- Inspection type
- Complaint (B)
- Scope
- Partial (B)
- Discipline
- Health
- Advance notice
- No
- Union status
- B
When did the case open and close?
- Opened
- Closing conference
- Case closed
- Last modified
- Data loaded
Establishment context
- NAICS code
- 488210
- Employees
- 11
- Ownership type
- A
Citations
13 citations on file for this inspection.
1910.146 D02
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $9239.00 · Current $9000.00 Reduced
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(d)(2): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not identify and evaluate the hazards of permit spaces before employees entered: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. The rail tank cars were permit required confined spaces, and were not adequately evaluated to determine if the spaces contained an atmosphere that may be immediately dangerous to life or health, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $9000
- — C (S) $9239
- — Z (S) $9239
1910.146 D04
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(d)(4): The employer did not ensue that equipment required specified in paragraphs (d)(4)(i)-(d)(4)(ix) of this section was properly used: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. The rail tank cars were permit required confined spaces, and the employer did not ensure that employees used bump gas to perform daily field checks on the GasAlert gas detector, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.146 D04 I
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(d)(4)(i): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not provide, at no cost to the employees, testing and monitoring equipment needed to comply with 29 CFR 1910.146(d)(5): a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. The rail tank cars were permit required confined spaces, and the employer did not have adequate means to detect potentially incapacitating levels of inhalation health hazards of toluene and components commonly found in petroleum crude oil, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.146 D05 II
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(d)(5)(ii): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not evaluate permit space conditions when entry operations were conducted by testing or monitoring the permit space as necessary: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. Air monitoring was not conducted during the course of entry, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.146 C04
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $9239.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4): The written permit space entry program was not available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue, and a written permit space program was not developed and made available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $9239
- — Z (S) $9239
1910.146 G01
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(g)(1): The employer did not provide training so that all employees whose work was regulated by 29 CFR 1910.146 (permit required confined spaces) acquired the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of the duties assigned under 29 CFR 1910.146: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. Employees were not aware that instrument errors and omissions while performing air monitoring in the rail tank cars may prevent detection of an atmosphere that may be immediately dangerous to life or health, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.146 G04
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(g)(4): The employer did not make the training certifications required by 29 CFR 1910.146(g)(1) through 29 CFR 1910.146(g)(3) available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives: a) Employees entered rail tank cars and were exposed to crude oil and toluene. Training records and certifications were not maintained and made available, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.1200 E01
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
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: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. A written chemical hazard communication program was not maintained, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (S) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.146 E01
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $5543.00 · Current $5000.00 Reduced
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(e)(1): Before entry was authorized, the employer did not document the completion of measures required by 29 CFR 1910.146(d)(3) by preparing an entry permit: a) Employees entered rail tank cars, which contained petroleum crude oil liquid and residue, and rail tank cars that contained toluene liquid and residue. The rail tank cars, in which entry was made, were permit required confined spaces, and permits were not completed, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (O) $5000
- — C (S) $5543
- — Z (S) $5543
1910.146 K02 IV
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $9239.00 · Current $9000.00 Reduced
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(k)(2)(iv): The employer did not ensure that affected employees practice making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months, by means of simulated rescue operations in which they remove dummies, manikins, or actual persons from the actual permit spaces or from representative permit spaces: a) Employee training for rescue of entrants inside the rail cars did not include practice of simulated rescue operations, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (O) $9000
- — C (S) $9239
- — Z (S) $9239
1910.146 K03 II
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024608890
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.146(k)(3)(ii): An authorized entrant entered a permit space and did not have the other end of the retrieval line attached to a mechanical device or fixed point outside the permit space in such a manner that rescue could begin as soon as the rescuer becomes aware that rescue is necessary: a) Authorized entrants entered rail tank cars which contained crude oil and toluene, and each entrant did not have a retrieval rope tied to an anchor point which was located outside of the man way top, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (O) $0
- — C (S) $0
- — Z (S) $0
1910.134 E01
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024605010
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) Employees wore negative pressure, rubber facepiece, cartridge type respirators when pressure washing the interior of the rail tank cars and were not provided medical evaluation, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (O) $0
- — C (O) $0
- — Z (O) $0
1910.134 C02 II
- Issued
- Abate by
- Penalty
- Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00
19902037227024605010
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user: a) Employees wore negative pressure, rubber facepiece, cartridge type respirators when pressure washing the interior of the rail tank cars and a written respiratory protection program was not maintained, on or about, September 17, 2018. ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED
Recent events (3)
- — F (O) $0
- — C (O) $0
- — Z (O) $0
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Source
This record is reproduced from the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data API (OSHA inspection dataset). The original IMIS detail view is available at OSHA's Establishment Search for activity number 343469482.