OSHA Inspection: PREFINISHED STAINING PRODUCTS INC.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $1989.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.94(c)(6)(iii)(a): When an operator is in a booth downstream of the object being sprayed, an air supplied respirator or other type of respirator must be used by employees that has been approved by the NIOSH under 42 CFR part 84 for the material being sprayed.    On or about October 11, 2018, an employee conducting spray coating operations in a spray booth, downstream of the object being sprayed and was not included in a Respiratory Protection Program.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): In any workplace where respirators are necessary to protect the health of the employee or whenever respirators are required by the employer, the employer shall establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures. The program shall be updated as necessary to reflect those changes in workplace conditions that affect respirator use.   On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc. did not establish and implement a respiratory protection program for employees conducting spray coating operations in the spray booth of the Hand Spray Building.   Provisions of 29 CFR 1910.134(c) through (m) must be covered in a respiratory program. Key elements include, but are not limited to, the following:  1) Written Program 2) Medical Evaluations 3) Fit Testing 4) Respirator use, care, maintenance and storage

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): General. The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.  On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc had not provided employees conducting hand spray operations in the spray booth with medical evaluations to determine their ability to use respirators.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer shall ensure that employees using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator pass an appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT) as stated in this paragraph.  On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc had not conducted an appropriate fit test for employees using respirators in the Hand Spray Building.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k): Training and information. This paragraph requires the employer to provide effective training to employees who are required to use respirators. The training must be comprehensive, understandable, and recur annually, and more often if necessary. This paragraph also requires the employer to provide the basic information on respirators in Appendix D of this section to employees who wear respirators when not required by this section or by the employer to do so.  On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc had not provide effective training to employees using 3M 8210 Particulate Respirators in the spray booth area of the Hand Spray Building.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6630.00 · Current $3315.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.    On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc. did not establish an energy control program that protects employees against unexpected energization or start up of machines during servicing and maintenance activities.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6630.00 · Current $3315.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance shall be conducted at least once every three years.    On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc. did not ensure that forklift operators had been evaluated at least once every three years.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(q)(7): Industrial trucks shall be examined before being placed in service, and shall not be placed in service if the examination shows any condition adversely affecting the safety of the vehicle. Such examination shall be made at least daily. Where industrial trucks are used on a round-the-clock basis, they shall be examined after each shift. Defects when found shall be immediately reported and corrected.  On or about October 11, 2018, forklifts were not being inspected prior to use to identify any condition which might affect the safe operation of the lift.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $1989.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met.    On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products had not developed and implemented a hazardous communication program.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)  On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished staining did not maintain copies of safety data sheets for paints being used in the Hand Spray building.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.  On or about October 11, 2018, Prefinished Staining Products, Inc. had not provided effective information and training to employees working with hazardous chemicals.

Issued

2019-01-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.37(b)(2): Each exit must be clearly visible and marked by a sign reading "Exit."  On or about October 11, 2018, an exit sign along the western wall of the Machine Paint Building was broken and missing the front cover of the sign, and no longer meeting the requirement of a sign reading "Exit".