OSHA Inspection: UNITED PUMP & TANK, INC.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3856.00 · Current $2313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c): The employer did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures and elements for required respirator use: (Construction Reference 1926.103)    A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, the employer did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program for employees who wore respirators, including a 3M half-mask respirator.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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: (Construction Reference 1926.103)  A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, the employer did not provide each employee who wore a respirator, such as a 3M half-mask respirator, with a medical evaluation.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3856.00 · Current $2313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.65(b)(1)(i): The employer did not develop and/or implement a written safety and health program that was designed to identify, evaluate, and control safety and health hazards, and provide for emergency response for hazardous waste operations:    A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, the employer did not develop and implement a written safety and health program to address the safety and health hazards related to the removal and cleaning of the underground gasoline storage tanks on the site.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3856.00 · Current $2313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.65(e)(1)(i): Employees working on site who were exposed to hazardous substances, health hazards, or safety hazards and/or their supervisors and management responsible for the site did not receive training meeting the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.65 before they were permitted to engage in hazardous waste operations that could expose them to hazardous substances, safety or health hazards and they shall receive review training as specified in 29 CFR 1926.65:    A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, employees who were removing and cleaning the underground gasoline storage tanks on the site did not receive training meeting the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.65, specifically (e)(2), (e)(3)(i) and (e)(4).

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3856.00 · Current $2313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(a): Before it began work at a worksite, the employer did not ensure that a competent person identified all confined spaces in which one or more of the employees it directed may have worked, and/or did not identify each space that was a permit space, through consideration and evaluation of the elements of that space, including testing as necessary:    A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, a competent person did not identify that the underground gasoline storage tanks were permit required confined spaces.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(d): When the employer decided that its employees would enter permit spaces, the employer did not develop and implement a written permit space entry program that complied with �1926.1204 implemented at the construction site:  A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, a written permit space entry program was not developed or implemented to address permit spaces such as the underground gasoline storage tanks.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3856.00 · Current $2313.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1207(a): The employer did not provide training to each employee whose work is regulated by this standard, at no cost to the employee, and did not ensure that the employee possessed the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of duties assigned under this standard:    A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, employees who entered the underground gasoline storage tank were not provided with training on permit required confined spaces.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1211(c): The employer did not designate an entry rescue service whenever non-entry rescue was not selected. Whenever non-entry rescue was selected, the entry employer did not ensure that retrieval systems or methods were used whenever an authorized entrant entered a permit space, and did not confirm, prior to entry, that emergency assistance would be available in the event that non-entry rescue failed:  A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, the employer did not designate an entry rescue service or ensure that retrieval systems or methods were used when employees entered the underground gasoline storage tank.

Issued

2020-03-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer did not ensure that employee(s) required to use a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed the appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT): (Construction Reference 1926.103  A) Worksite - On or about October 30, 2019, the foreman was not fit tested for the 3M half-face air purifying respirator that he was wearing.