OSHA Inspection: DENNING MACHINE SHOP, INC

Issued

2023-02-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-03-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4018.00 · Current $2411.00 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.  In the painting area, employee(s) engaged in hay trailer manufacturing activities were exposed to respiratory hazards and/or cardiac stress hazards  in that medical evaluation was not provided before requiring the employee(s) to use the 3M half face respirator.

Issued

2023-02-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-03-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2679.00 · Current $1607.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 17502590

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:  In the production area, the employer failed to develop a written hazard communication program to describe how the program would be implemented to include proper training, labeling, and the administration of safety data sheets, to address their chemicals, such as the hazards of paint thinners and reducers which are flammable.

Issued

2023-02-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-03-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2679.00 · Current $1607.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(g)(8): The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)  The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical used in hay trailer manufacturing activities including but not limited to methyl ethyl ketone  which is flammable, skin irritant, central nervous system toxicant, liver and kidney toxicant; Xylene  which is flammable;  and Color By Design Hi-Solids paint which is flammable, and suspected of causing cancer.