OSHA Inspection: TRACHTE SOUTHEAST, LLC

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3587.00 · Current $2152.00 Reduced

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: Note:  The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.  Trachte Southeast, LLC - In the welding area, employees were provided and required to use a PAPR when welding on galvanized steel. A medical evaluation to determine to employees' ability to use a respirator was not performed, on or about 12/3/19.

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-01-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4220.00 · Current $2532.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii): The energy control procedures did not clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, including, but not limited to items of this section:   Trachte Southeast, LLC, Eastanollee, GA - An employee changed the dies on the Accupress. The Accupress had electrical, hydraulic and gravity energies. The lockout/tagout written procedures did not list the hydraulic energy and the magnitude of the electrical energy, on or about 12/3/19.

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(5)(ii): Lockout devices and tagout devices were not singularly identified:  Trachte Southeast, LLC, Eastanollee, GA - An employee changed the dies on the Accupress. The lock used by the employee had two tags with other employees names and not singularly identified with his name, on or about 12/5/19.

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-01-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(i): The employer did not conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and the requirement of this standard were being followed:  Trachte Southeast, LLC, Eastanollee, GA - An employee changed the dies on the Accupress. A periodic inspection of the lockout/tag procedures was not conducted at the site, on or about 12/3/19.

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4220.00 · Current $2532.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance was not being conducted at least once every three years:  Trachte Southeast, LLC - Employees operating the forklifts were initially trained. An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator was not performed every three years, on or about 12/3/19.

Issued

2019-12-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3587.00 · Current $2152.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.179(j)(2)(iii): A certification record which includes the date of inspection, the signature of the person who performed the inspection and the serial number, or other identifier, of the hook inspected, was not maintained:  Trachte Southeast, LLC - In the welding area, employees operated the overhead cranes. The hooks were inspected prior to each use but the inspection was not certified at least monthly, on or about 12/3/19.