OSHA Inspection: METALLIZED CARBON CORP.

Issued

Apr 4, 2022

Penalty

Initial $13,052 · Current $7,835 Reduced

Hazardous substances 0560

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(d)(1)(iii):The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form:   Location: Molding Department,   a)  An employee  was  exposed to 191.5 ppm of Carbon Monoxide which was 3.83 times over the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 50 ppm during a 330 minute occupational exposure on 11/16/21. The employer did not properly evaluate the respiratory hazards in the molding department exposing employee to Carbon Monoxide.

Issued

Apr 4, 2022

Penalty

Initial $13,052 · Current $7,835 Reduced

Hazardous substances 0560

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1000(a)(2): Employees were exposed to an airborne concentration of Carbon Monoxide listed in Table Z-1 in excess of the 8-hour Time-Weighted Average concentration of 50 parts per million particles of air (50 ppm) for any 8-hour work shift of a 40-hour work week and attenuated accordingly for extended work shifts in extended work weeks:   Location; Molding Department, Maintenance office   a)  An employee  was scheduling work orders under a heater that  was leaking carbon monoxide. The employee went to the molding dept. to  conduct maintenance work on a tube oven (CB 3) that was leaking Carbon Monoxide. The employee  was  exposed to 191.5 ppm of Carbon Monoxide which was 3.83 times over the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 50 pp during a 330 minute occupational exposure on 11/16/21.

Issued

Apr 4, 2022

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 0560

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1000(e):Feasible administrative or engineering controls were not determined and implemented to achieve compliance with the limits prescribed in 29 CFR 1910.1000(a) through (d):  Location: Baking department, Maintenance office  a) Employee  was scheduling work orders under a heater that was leaking carbon monoxide. The employee went to the baking dept. to  conducted maintenance work on oven that was leaking Carbon Monoxide. The employee  was  exposed to 191.5 ppm of Carbon Monoxide which was 3.83 times over the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 50 pp during a 330 minute occupational exposure on 11/16/21.  The employer did not implement adequate engineering or administrative controls exposing employees to Carbon Monoxide.