OSHA Inspection: BARTON MATERIALS, LLC

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5594.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): Where respirator use is not required, the employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written respiratory protection program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily is medically able to use that respirator:  (a)  Barton Materials, LLC dba Barton Supply, at 14800 E Moncrieff Place, Aurora, CO: On and about December 1, 2021, the employer did not  conduct medical evaluations for employees allowed to voluntarily wear respirators during welding operations.  Employees welded mild carbon steel.  Employees were allowed to wear various half mask air purifying respirators with P100 filters and PAPR's. This condition potentially exposed employees to a respiratory hazard.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  (a)  Barton Materials, LLC dba Barton Supply, at 14800 E Moncrieff Place, Aurora, CO: On and about December 1, 2021, the employer did not do their own air monitoring for for welding and painting operations during welding, cutting, grinding, polishing, drilling, painting and priming on structural steel in and outside the warehouse where these activities take place. This condition potentially exposed the employees to respiratory hazards.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of this section, in any written or oral format to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer:  (a)  Barton Materials, LLC dba Barton Supply, at 14800 E Moncrieff Place, Aurora, CO: On and about December 1, 2021,  the employer did not provide Appendix D information to employees and did not provide any basic training on voluntary use of respirators during welding, cutting, polishing, grinding and painting/priming activities on structural steel. Employees were allowed to wear half mask air purifying respirators with P100 filters and PAPR's. This condition potentially exposed the employees to a respiratory hazard.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $13052.00 · Current $6000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.147(c)(4)(ii): Procedures did not clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)(A), (c)(4)(ii)(B), (c)(4)(ii)(C) and (c)(4)(ii)(D):   On and about December 1, 2021, the company's lockout/tagout program was deficient in that, the employer failed to develop and enforce the use of specific procedural steps or additional methods and instructions to protected employees who operated and serviced machinery such as, the company's CNC machinery, presses, and rebar machines. Employees who performed duties related to the fabrication of structural steel and residential steel products were potentially exposed to hazards created by rotating and/or moving parts, caught in/caught and entanglement/entrapment hazards.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.147(c)(7)(i): The employer did not provide adequate training to ensure that the purpose and function of the energy control program was understood by employees:  On and about December 1, 2021, untrained employees were authorized to lockout /tagout  equipment such as, but not limited to, CNC machinery, presses, laser cutting tables, drilling and rebar machines. Energies source used at the facility include electricity, hydraulic and pneumatic energy, thermal energy and gravity.  Employees who operate and/or assigned to maintain machinery at the facility were not protected  hazards created by/from hazardous energy sources.  The condition exposed employees to amputation hazards.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-08-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $11188.00 · Current $5000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employer had not provided employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees had not previously been trained about was introduced into their work area:  (a)  Barton Materials, LLC dba Barton Supply, at 14800 E Moncrieff Place, Aurora, CO: On and about December 1, 2021, the employer had not provided employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals used in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the was introduced into their work area.  Employees performed duties related to the fabrication of structural steel and residential steel products and work with chemicals such as, but not limited to the following:  1.  The Sherwin-Williams Company Steel Spec Structural Steel Primer; 2.  Xylene; 3. Structural Steel Paints