OSHA Inspection: CORNELL-CARR COMPANY, INC.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $5,834 · Current $4,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): The employer did not ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator was fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator, whenever a different respirator facepiece (size, style, model or make) was used, and at least annually thereafter.    Facility:  The employed did not ensure that employees wearing tight fitting negative pressure half facepiece respirators were fit tested prior to initial use and at least annually as follow:    1.    An employee wearing a full face tight-fitting respirator was not fit tested prior to use.  2.    An employee wearing a half face tight-fitting respirator was not fit tested annually.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $5,834 · Current $4,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1025(l)(1)(i): Employee(s) working in an area where there was potential exposure to airborne lead at any level were not informed of the content of Appendices A and B of 29 CFR 1910.1025:    Facility: The employees potentially exposed to airborne lead levels while working in and around the welding area were not informed of the contents of Appendices A and B of the standard.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Jan 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1025(m)(1)(iii): The employer did not include lead in the hazard communication program established to comply with the hazard communication standard (1910.1200).  Facility: The employer did not include lead in the established written hazard communication program.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $5,834 · Current $4,000 Reduced

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):    Facility: The employer did not determine the 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) for each employee exposed to chromium for job activities, such as, but not limited to, welding.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Jan 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

1910.1026(l)(1)(iii): The employer did not include chromium (VI) in the hazard communication program established to comply with the HCS (� 1910.1200). The employer did not ensure that each employee had access to labels on containers of chromium (VI) and to safety data sheets, and was trained in accordance with the requirements of HCS and paragraph (l)(2) of this section:  Facility:  The employer did not include hexavalent chromium training or chromium in the established written hazard communication program.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $5,834 · Current $4,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)(ii): The written hazard communication program did not include the methods the employer will use to inform employees of the hazards of non routine tasks, and the hazards associated with chemicals contained in unlabeled pipes in their work areas:     Facility: The employer did not ensure that the hazard communication program included the methods that would be used to inform employees of the hazards of non-routine tasks, and the hazards associated with chemicals contained in unlabeled pipes in their work areas.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Jan 17, 2020

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):  Facility: The employer neither maintained in the workplace copies of all Safety Data Sheets (SDS) nor made the all SDS readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work areas.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(2)(iii): The employer did not provide information to the employees as to the location and availability of the written hazard communication program, including the required list(s) of hazardous chemicals, and safety data sheets required by this section of the 29 CFR 1910.1200:    Facility: The employer did not provide the information to the employees as to the location and availability of the written hazard communication program and Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii): The employee training did not include the physical, health, simple asphyxiation, combustible dust, and pyrophoric gas hazards, as well as hazards not otherwise classified, of the chemicals in the work area:    Facility: The employer did not ensure that the employee training for the chemical hazard communication included all the pertinent information as required.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Feb 14, 2020

Penalty

Initial $21,880 · Current $15,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(5): Respiratory protection retraining was not conducted annually:    Facility: The Annual respiratory protection re-training was not conducted with each employee who was required to use respirators.    Cornell-Carr Company, Incorporated was previously cited for a violation of this Occupational Safety and Health standard or its equivalent standard, 29 CFR 1910.134(k)(5), which was contained in OSHA Inspection Number 1291757, Citation Number 2, Item Number 1 and was affirmed as a final order on June 20, 2018 with respect to a workplace located at 626 Main Street, Monroe CT 06468 .

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Jan 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i): The employer did not include in the program the procedures for selecting respirators for use in the workplace:  Facility: The written respiratory protection program did not contain the procedures for selecting respirators for use in the workplace where employees were required to use dust mask, half and full facepiece respirators.

Issued

Nov 29, 2019

Abate by

Jan 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(g)(1)(i)(A): Respirators with tight-fitting facepieces were worn by employees who had facial hair that came between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the face or that interfered with valve function:    Facility: An employee who was required to wear half facepiece tight-fitting respirators had facial hair that came between the seal and the face.