OSHA Inspection: MBTW

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $1563.00 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:    The employer is failing to protect employees from chemical hazards. This was most recently documented at the MBTW facility located at 200 N. Main Street, Ottawa, Kansas.  Employees engaged in waste removal work were exposed to skin irritation, carcinogenic hazards and burns while dispensing diesel fuel in that the employer had not developed and implemented a hazard communication program to inform employees of the hazards associated with the diesel fuel that is used daily.

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $1563.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain copies of the required material safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace:    The employer is failing to protect employees from chemical hazards. This was most recently documented at the MBTW facility located at 200 N. Main Street, Ottawa, Kansas.  Employees engaged in waste removal work were exposed to skin irritation, carcinogenic hazards and burns while dispensing diesel fuel in that the employer did not maintain copies of the required safety data sheet to ensure that employees are aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $1563.00 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:    The employer is failing to protect employees from chemical hazards. This was most recently documented at the MBTW facility located at 200 N. Main Street, Ottawa, Kansas.  Employees engaged in waste removal work were exposed to skin irritation, carcinogenic hazards and burns while dispensing diesel fuel in that the employer did not provide training to ensure that employees are able to recognize, evaluate, and control the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $2785.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to fall and struck-by hazards:    The employer failed to protect workers from fall and struck-by hazards associated with riding in the hopper of a rear-loading waste collection vehicle.   This was most recently document on or about November 7, 2018 at 2126 South Elm Street in Ottawa, Kansas while traveling to a waste collection route.  The employer, driving the vehicle, allowed employees to ride in the hopper of the truck which is not designed or designated as a riding position.  A pitcher employee, that was allowed to ride in the hopper, was fatally injured when he fell from the moving vehicle.      Acceptable means of abatement include but are not limited to:  1)   Ensure employees ride only in areas that are designed and designated as proper driving or riding positions and establish a written rule that outlines the employer's instructions regarding driving and riding positions. These include, but are not limited to, the provisions outlined in ANSI Z245.1 - 2008 entitled Mobile Wastes and Recyclable Materials Collection, Transportation, and Compaction Equipment-Safety Requirements, 6.2.3.2 a) through j), Driving and Riding positions;    2) Ensure that no person(s) ride on the loading platform, on the sill, on the kicker bar, or in the hopper of a compactor equipped vehicle, ANSI Z245.1 - 2008, 6.2.5.4 a) through f);     3) Implement a Safety Program which includes a hazard assessment, an evaluation of the means and methods of controlling those hazards, a written program per 9.3.2.1.(c) of the ANSI standard to include operation/inspection/maintenance procedures, prohibited practices, recordkeeping, training requirements, and reference to utilized documents; a schedule for the implementation of the written program and periodic reviews/revisions to ensure the effectiveness of the program, ANSI Z245.1 - 2008 entitled Mobile Wastes and Recyclable Materials Collection, Transportation, and Compaction Equipment-Safety Requirements;     4) Provide training to ensure that all employees, including supervisors, drivers and laborers are properly trained for their assigned jobs, tasks, and use of related equipment. This training must be provided at least upon initial assignment to a job or task, with periodic refresher training as necessary to maintain the required level of competence. Additional retraining also shall be provided whenever a periodic inspection reveals, or whenever the employer has reason to believe, that there are employee deviations from procedures or inadequacies in the employee's knowledge of procedures;     5) Training records, at a minimum, maintained in accordance with ANSI Z245.1-2008, Section 9.3.2;     6) Training requirements, at a minimum, should include those provisions outlined in ANSI Z245.1-2008, Section 9.3.4.

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1): The employer did not report within 8-hours the death of an employee resulting from a work-related incident.    A work related incident which resulted in a fatality was not reported to OSHA within 8 hours.  The victim died on or about 11/15/2018 at 2:44 pm and was reported to OSHA on 11/19/2018 at 1:55 pm.

Issued

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2): The employer failed to report the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, within (24) twenty-four hours:  A work related incident which resulted in an employee hospitalization was not reported to OSHA within 24 hours.  The incident occurred on or about 11/6/2018 at 5:50 am and was reported to OSHA on 11/19/2018 at 1:55 pm.