OSHA Inspection: EASTERN COAST MANAGEMENT INC.

Issued

2021-09-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-10-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $329.00 · Current $329.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1): The employer did not certify to OSHA, within 10 calendar days after the abatement date, that the cited violation had been abated:  The employer failed to provide to OSHA a certificate of abatement for the citations issued on July 9, 2021, for the facility located at a worksite located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708: The certifications were due to OSHA by August 4, 2021, and were not provided.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(d)(1):On a multi-employer worksite, the employer performing work requiring the establishment of a regulated area did not inform other employers on site of the nature of the employer's work with asbestos, of the existence of and requirements pertaining to regulated areas, and the measures taken to ensure that employees of such other employers are not exposed to asbestos:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. This employer on a multi-employer worksite failed to inform employers of other employees of the nature of their work with regard to the removal of asbestos-containing flooring materials.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(d)(2): Asbestos hazards at a multi-employer worksite were not abated by the contractor who created or controlled the source of asbestos contamination:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work.  This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer created asbestos contamination in the facility when they removed approximately 10,000 square feet of asbestos-containing flooring materials.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

CFR 1926.1101(e)(1): All Class I, II, and III asbestos work was not conducted within regulated areas:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 22, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health and Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton Street, Monett, Missouri 65708. Employees were exposed to Class II asbestos work where asbestos-containing flooring materials were removed without use of a regulated areas.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(f)(1)(i): Where exposure monitoring was required under 29 CFR 1926.1101, the employer did not perform monitoring to determine accurately the airborne concentrations of asbestos to which employees were or potentially were exposed:   The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work.  This was most recently documented on or about January 11, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. A contractor performed Class II asbestos work of approximately 10,000 square feet of the facility without the use of enclosures or regulated areas. The employer did not conduct monitoring to determine employee exposure.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(g)(1): The employer did not use engineering controls and work practices in all operations covered by 29 CFR 1926.1101, regardless of the levels of the exposure:   The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 11, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to implement engineering and work practices required by this section during Class II work, removal of flooring asbestos-containing flooring materials.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(g)(8)(i): For jobs removing vinyl and asphalt flooring materials which contain asbestos of for which buildings constructed no later than 1980, where the employer did not verify the absence of asbestos-containing material pursuant to 29 CFR 1926.1101(g)(8)(i)(I), the employer did not ensure that employees complied with work practices described in 29 CFR 1926.1101(g)(8)(i)(A) through (g)(8)(i)(I) and that employees were trained in these practices pursuant to 29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(9):   The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to ensure that an employee removing asbestos containing flooring materials complied with the work practices pursuant to this section and failed to train its employees on these practices.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(g)(7)(ii): Where a negative exposure assessment was not produced, or where changed job conditions indicated there may be exposure above the PEL or where the employer did not remove the ACM in a substantially intact state, the employer did not use one of the methods listed in sections (A) through (C) of this paragraph for all indoor Class II jobs, in order to ensure that airborne asbestos did not migrate from the regulated area:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work.  This was most recently documented on or about January 11, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer did not obtain a  negative exposure assessment, and then when removing asbestos containing materials that were not substantially intact the employer  failed to set up critical barriers at all openings, place impermeable drop cloths on surfaces, and set in place isolation methods for airborne migration of Class II asbestos.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(h)(2)(i): The employer failed to implement a respiratory protection program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134(b) through (d) [except (d)(1)(iii)], and (f) through (m), which covers each employee required by 29 CFR 1926.1101 to use a respirator:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. Employees removed asbestos-containing flooring materials and mastic/glue from approximately a 10,000 square feet portion of the facility without the employer having implemented a respiratory protection program that covered each employee who performed Class II asbestos removal in a state not substantially intact condition and when a negative exposure assessment had not been conducted for Class II asbestos work.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(h)(3)(i)(A): The employer selected or used filtering facepiece respirator against asbestos fibers:  TThe employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work.  This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. Employees were provided filtering facepiece respirators (N95 respirators or surgical masks) for use when performing Class II asbestos work removing asbestos-containing flooring materialsincluding mastic/glue.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(m)(2)(i)(A): The employer did not make available medical examinations and consultations to each employee covered under 29 CFR 1926.1101(m)(1)(i) prior to assignment of the employee to an area where negative-pressure respirators are worn:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work.  This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. Employees were exposed to respiratory hazards from asbestos when the employer did not make available medical examination and consultation prior to wearing an N95 filtering face piece respirator during the assignment on the construction project.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(i)(1): The employer must provide and require the use of protective clothing, such as coveralls or similar whole-body clothing, head coverings, gloves, and foot coverings for each employee exposed to airborne concentrations of asbestos that exceed the time weighted average and/or excursion limit in 29 CFR 1926.1101(c) or for which a required negative exposure assessment was not produced:  TThe employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to produce a  required negative exposure assessment  and subsequently  failed to provide and require the use of protective clothing during Class II asbestos work, removal of flooring with asbestos-containing flooring materials, including mastic/glue.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(i)(3): Contaminated clothing was not transported in sealed impermeable gags, or other closed, impermeable containers  and was not labeled in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.1101(k):  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to ensure that contaminated employee clothing was transported in sealed impermeable bags, or other closed, impermeable containers; employees were allowed to wear personal clothing during Class II asbestos work then wear the same clothing, contaminated with asbestos, while working in the facility and out of the facility.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(j)(2)(i): The employer must establish a decontamination room or area for employees and equipment, adjacent to the regulated area, consisting of an impermeable drop cloth on the floor or horizontal working surface, for employees engaged in Class I work involving less than 25 linear or 10 square feet of thermal system insulation or surfacing asbestos-containing material and for Class II and Class III asbestos work operations where exposures exceed a permissible exposure limit or where there was no negative exposure assessment produced before the operation:   The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. Where a negative exposure assessment had not been performed, the employer failed to establish a decontamination room or area for employees and equipment; Class II asbestos work was performed, removing flooring, which had asbestos-containing flooring materials and mastic/glue.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(k)(1)(ii): The employer did not include asbestos in the program established to comply with the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) (� 1910.1200, did not ensure that each employee had access to labels on containers of asbestos and safety data sheets, did not ensure hazard communication training on asbestos in accordance with the provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200 as well as paragraphs (k)(9) and (10) of this section. The employer did not provide information on at least the following hazards: Cancer and lung effects.  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to ensure employees were provided  hazard communication information related to asbestos hazards when employees performed Class II asbestos work, removing asbestos-containing flooring materials including mastic/glue.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(k)(9)(i): The employer did not institute, at no cost to employees, a training program for each employee who was likely to be exposed in excess of the permissible exposure limit (PEL) and for each employee who performed Class I through IV asbestos operations:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer did not provide training to the employee performing Class II asbestos work, removing flooring which had asbestos-containing flooring materials including mastic/glue.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

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: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from with the use of hazardous chemicals, specifically asbestos. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health and Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton Street, Monett, Missouri 65708. Employees are exposed to chemical hazards when the employer failed to implement a hazard communication program.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(l)(2): Asbestos waste, scrap, debris, bags, containers, equipment, and contaminated clothing consigned for disposal must be collected and disposed of in sealed, labeled, impermeable bags or other closed, labeled, impermeable containers:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to protect its employees from the hazard of exposure to asbestos by not ensuring that asbestos waste, scrap, debris, bags, containers, equipment, and contaminated clothing consigned for disposal was not collected and disposed of in sealed, labeled, impermeable bags or other closed, labeled, impermeable containers.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9557.00 · Current $9557.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(g)(7)(i): All Class II work was not supervised by a competent person as defined in 29 CFR 1926.1101(b):  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer failed to ensure that Class II asbestos work was supervised by a competent person. The employer was not capable of identifying existing asbestos hazards in the workplace and selecting the appropriate control strategy for asbestos exposure, in addition, for Class II work the employer was not specially trained in a training course that meets the criteria of EPA's Model Accreditation Plan (40 CFR part 763) for supervisor.

Issued

2021-07-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-08-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 9020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1101(o)(1):The employer did not designate a competent person on construction worksites, having the qualifications and authorities for ensuring worker safety and health required by 29 CFR 1926.1101(C), General Safety and Health Provisions for Construction 29 CFR 1926.20 through 29 CFR 1926.32:  The employer is failing to protect its employees and the employees of other employers from hazards associated with Class II asbestos work. This was most recently documented on or about January 12, 2021, and at times prior to at Bentonview Park Health & Rehabilitation located at 410 Benton St. Monett, Missouri 65708. The employer did not designate a competent person during the floor removal project.