OSHA Inspection: MARBLE AND GRANITE CONCEPTS

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2530.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): A written respiratory protection program that included the provisions in 29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i) - (ix) with worksite specific procedures was not established and implemented for required respirator use:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to establish and implement a written respiratory protection program when employees exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, respirable silica were required to wear a tight-fitting half face respirator when cutting and grinding countertops.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 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:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to provide a medical evaluation to employees exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, respirable silica who were required to wear a tight-fitting half face respirator when cutting and grinding countertops.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Employee(s) using tight-fitting facepiece respirators were not fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to provide fit tests to employees exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, respirable silica who were required to wear a tight-fitting half face respirator when cutting and grinding countertops.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-10-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(h)(2)(i): Respirators were not stored to protect them from damage, contamination, dust, sunlight, extreme temperatures, excessive moisture, and damaging chemicals or were not packed or stored to prevent deformation of the facepiece and exhalation valve:  On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that respirators were stored in a manner to protect them from damage, contamination, and dust countertops when an elastomeric half face respirator was stored hung in the corner of the fabrication department where grinding, cutting, and polishing of countertops takes place.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k): The employer did not provide comprehensive, understandable, and effective annual training to employees who were required to use respirators.     On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to provide respirator training to employees required to wear respirators when exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, respirable silica at levels greater than the PEL.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-03-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(g)(2): Where respirator use was required by this section, the employer did not institute a respiratory protection program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to develop a respiratory protection program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134 when respirator use was required due to an overexposure to respirable crystalline silica.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-05-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(c): The employer did not ensure that no employee was exposed to an airborne concentration of respirable crystalline silica in excess of 50 ug/m3, calculated as an 8-hour TWA:    On or about July 8, 2020, an employee cutting and grinding in the fabrication department was exposed to an 8-hour time weighted average of 93.32 ug/m3 for respirable crystalline silica, approximately 1.87 times the Permissible Exposure Limit of 50 ug/m3. The exposure level was derived from samples collected over a 346 minute sampling period with zero exposure assumed for the unsampled period of 134 minutes.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-05-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(f)(1): The employer did not use engineering and work practice controls to reduce and maintain employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica to or below the PEL, unless the employer can demonstrate that such controls are not feasible:    On or about July 8, 2020, the employer failed to provide engineering and work practice controls to reduce and maintain employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica to or below the PEL when an employee grinding and cutting in the fabrication department was exposed to an 8-hour time weighted average of 93.32 ug/m3 for respirable crystalline silica, approximately 1.87 times the Permissible Exposure Limit of 50 ug/m3. The exposure level was derived from samples collected over a 346 minute sampling period with zero exposure assumed for the unsampled period of 134 minutes.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(g)(1): Where respiratory protection was required by this section, the employer did not provide each employee an appropriate respirator that complied with the requirements of this paragraph and 29 CFR 1910.134:    On or about June 4, 2020 the employer failed to ensure that each employee cutting and grinding countertops in the fabrication department, who was exposed to respirable crystalline silica above the PEL, utilized an appropriate respirator.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2530.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(d)(1): The employer did not assess the exposure of each employee who was or may reasonably be expected to be exposed to respirable crystalline silica at or above the action level in accordance with either the performance option in paragraph (d)(2) or the scheduled monitoring option in paragraph (d)(3) of this section:    On or about July 8 2020, the employer failed to assess the exposure of each employee who was or may reasonably be expected to be exposed to resiprable crystalline silica at or above the action level when an employee cutting and grinding countertops in the fabrication department was exposed to an 8-hour time weighted average of 93.32 ug/m3 for respirable crystalline silica, approximately 1.87 times the Permissible Exposure Limit of 50 ug/m3.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(e)(1): The employer did not establish a regulated area wherever an employee's exposure to airborne concentrations of respirable crystalline silica was, or could have been reasonably expected to be, in excess of the PEL:  On or about July 8, 2020, the employer failed to establish a regulated area when an employee's exposure to airborne concentrations of respirable crystalline silica was in excess of the PEL.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-03-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(f)(2)(i): The employer did not establish and implement a written exposure control plan:  On or about July 8, 2020, the employer failed to establish and implement a written exposure control plan that includes a description of the tasks in the workplace that involve exposure to respirable crystalline silica, a description of the engineering controls, work practices, and respiratory protection used to limit employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica for each task, and a description of the housekeeping measures used to limit employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica when an employee in the fabrication department was overexposed to silica above the PEL when cutting and grinding countertops.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2530.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(i)(1)(i): The employer did not make medical surveillance available at no cost to each employee, and at a reasonable time and place, for each employee who has been occupationally exposed to respirable crystalline silica at or above the action level for 30 or more days per year:    On or about July 8, 2020, the employer failed to provide medical surveillance to each employee who are occupationally exposed to respirable crystalline silica above the action level for 30 or more days per year. An employee in the fabrication department cutting and grinding a countertops, was exposed to an 8-hour time weighted average of 93.32 ug/m3 for respirable crystalline silica, approximately 1.87 times the Permissible Exposure Limit of 50 ug/m3.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2530.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1053(j)(1): The employer did not ensure that each employee has access to labels on containers of crystalline silica and safety data sheets, and is trained in accordance with the provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard and paragraph (j)(3) of this section:    On or about July 8, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that each employee in the fabrication department exposed to respirable crystalline silica had access to safety data sheets and was trained on the health hazards associated with exposure to respirable crystalline silica, the specific tasks in the workplace that could result in exposure to respirable crystalline silica, specific measures that have been implemented to protect employees, and the purpose of the medical surveillance program.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to develop, implement, and maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program when employees were exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, silica while cutting and grinding countertops in the fabrication department.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Chemical manufacturers and importers did not obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical and for each chemical that posed a hazard not otherwise classified that they produce or import:  On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to maintain at the workplace the safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical used in the facility, including those which contain silica.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-03-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to provide effective information and training to employees exposed to chemicals including, but not limited to, silica when conducting work activities including, but not limited to, grinding and cutting in the fabrication department.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(e)(3): Portable fire extinguishers were not subjected to an annual maintenance check:  On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that the portable fire extinguishers were subject to an annual maintenance check. The fire extinguisher had not been serviced since 2014.

Issued

2020-09-30 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-11-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:    On or about June 4, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that employee who utilize the forklift were provided an evaluation of once every three years.