OSHA Inspection: GRAIN DENSIFICATION INTERNATIONAL, LLC

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $2,842 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(3)(iv): Under the permit-required confined space program required by 29 CFR 1910.146(c)(4), the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit entry operations, including providing purging, inerting, flushing, or ventilating the permit space as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards:     Employees were exposed to hazards such as exposure to combustible dust, and carbon dioxide while cleaning a railcar bin (permit confined space) and the employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices for purging, inerting, flushing, or venting the bins as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $0 Reduced

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:    The employer did not complete entry permits prior to allowing employees to enter rail tank cars (permit-required confined spaces) in order to perform cleaning activities.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $2,842 Reduced

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):    Employees routinely enter a permit confined spaces in rail cars to remove residual grain, and the employer did not provide equipment to test for oxygen, carbon dioxide, and flammable atmospheres.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(h)(2): The employer did not ensure that all authorized entrants properly used equipment as required by 29 CFR 1910.146(d)(4):    The employer did not ensure that all entrants properly used testing and monitoring equipment to test for atmospheric hazards when employees entering railcar bins to remove grain from it.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $2,842 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(d)(9): The employer did not develop and implement procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services, for rescuing entrants from permit spaces, for providing necessary emergency services to rescued employees, and/or for preventing unauthorized entry:    The employer did not develop and implement procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services to provide necessary emergency services to rescued employees conducting work in a railcar bin.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,789 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.146(k)(3): A retrieval system or methods were not used to facilitate non-entry rescue when an authorized entrant entered a permit space:      The employer did not provide retrieval systems or methods to facilitate non-entry rescue of authorized entrants that enter railcars to remove grain.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,031 · Current $2,273 Reduced

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:    On October 5, 2018, the employer did not implement, and maintain a written hazard communication program at the facility which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met for employees exposed to chemicals such as but not limited to Dried Distiller's Grains, Dried Distiller Grains with Solubles, DDG and DDGS.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s)  The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheet for chemicals such as but not limited to Dried Distiller's Grains, Dried Distiller Grains with solubles, DDG, and DDGS.

Issued

Apr 4, 2019

Abate by

May 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  Employees were not provided with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to Dried Distiller's Grains, Dried Distiller's Grains with Solubles, DDG, and DDGS.