OSHA Inspection: RIPON TRUCK REPAIR & EQUIPMENT

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $6,453 · Current $3,871 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.23(b)(9):  Ladders are inspected before initial use in each work shift, and more frequently as necessary, to identify any visible defects that could cause employee injury:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; ladder used in the Paint Department Bay 2 were not inspected before initial use in to identify and visible defects that could cause employee injury.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Apr 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $8,067 · Current $4,840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.106(e)(2)(ii)(b)(2):  The quantity of liquid that may be located outside of an inside storage room or storage cabinet in a building or in any one fire area of a building shall not exceed 120 gallons of Category 2, 3, or 4 flammable liquids in containers:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer had greater than 120 gallons of Category 2, 3, or 4 flammable liquids in the Paint Storage room. Approximately 334 gallons of flammable liquids in containers were stored in the room which was not a compliant inside storage room. The approximately 234 1-gallon cans, nine 5-gallon buckets, and one 55-gallon drum were not stored in approved flammable cabinets.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,839 · Current $2,903 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.107(b)(9):  Spray booths shall be so installed that all portions are readily accessible for cleaning. A clear space of not less than 3 feet on all sides shall be kept free from storage or combustible construction:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; storage along the outside west wall of the spray booth in Bay 2 did not allow for a clear space of 3 feet on all sides. Cardboard boxes of PPE, spray booth filters, and winter jackets were stored along the outer west wall of the spray booth.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $8,067 · Current $4,840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(c)(1): In any workplace where respirators are necessary to protect the health of the employee or whenever respirators are required by the employer, the employer shall establish and implement a written respiratory protection program with worksite-specific procedures. The program shall be updated as necessary to reflect those changes in workplace conditions that affect respirator use:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not establish and implement a written respiratory protection program when employees were required to wear tight-fitting half-face negative pressure respirators while conducting spray finishing operations in Bay 1 and Bay 2 of the Paint Department.  All provisions of 29 CFR 1910.134(c) through (m) must be contained in a written respiratory protection program. Key elements include, but are not limited to the following:  1) Respirator Selection 2) Filter Changeout Schedule 3) Medical clearance for respirator use 4) Fit testing 5) Employee training on use, care, maintenance, storage, and limitations of respirators 6) Program evaluation 7) Recordkeeping

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(d)(1)(ii): The employer shall select a NIOSH-certified respirator. The respirator shall be used in compliance with the conditions of its certification:  On or about October 14, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not select a NIOSH-certified respirator when employee were required to wear respiratory protection while conducting spray finishing operations in Bay 2 of the Paint Department. The employer provided full-face elastomeric respirators which were not NIOSH-certified.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(e)(1):  The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not provide medical evaluations to determine employees' ability to use tight-fitting negative pressure respirators while they conducting spray finishing operations in Bay 1 and Bay 2 of the Paint Department.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(f)(1):  The employer shall ensure that employees using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator pass an appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT):  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not ensure that employees using tight-fitting facepiece respirators, such as but not limited to 3M half-face respirators, had passed an appropriate QLFT or QNFT.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $8,067 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(g)(1)(i)(A):  The employer shall not permit respirators with tight-fitting facepieces to be worn by employees who have facial hair that comes between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the face or that interferes with valve function:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer permitted employees to have facial hair that came between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the the face.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(k):  This paragraph requires the employer to provide effective training to employees who are required to use respirators. The training must be comprehensive, understandable, and recur annually, and more often if necessary. This paragraph also requires the employer to provide the basic information on respirators in Appendix D of this section to employees who wear respirators when not required by this section or by the employer to do so:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not provide effective training to Painter employees in the Paint Department who were were required to wear negative pressure tight-fitting half-face and full face respirator when conducting spray painting operations. The employer did not provide the basic information on respirators in Appendix D of this section for employees were were provided N95 respirators for voluntary use.  All provisions of 29 CFR 1910.134(k)(1) through (k)(6) shall be provided to employees wearing respirators. Key elements include, but are not limited to the following:  1) Reason for respirators use 2) Respirator limitations and capabilities 3) Effective respirator inspection and use 4) Procedures for maintenance, care and storage of respirators 5) Recognition of signs/symptoms that may limit respirator use

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $11,292 · Current $6,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(e)(1):  Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not develop or implement a written hazard communication program when employees were working with hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to paints and solvents with flammable, health, and toxic hazards.  All provisions of 29 CFR 1910.1200(e) through (h) must be covered in a Hazard Communication program. Key elements include, but are not limited to the following:  1) List of hazard chemicals 2) Complete accessible collection of SDS 3) Container labeling 4) Employee information and training

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(f)(6)(ii):  The employer shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace is labeled, tagged or marked with the product identifier and words, pictures, symbols, or combination thereof, which provide at least general information regarding the hazards of the chemicals, and which, in conjunction with the other information immediately available to employees under the hazard communication program, will provide employees with the specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the hazardous chemical:   On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace were labeled, tagged, or marked with the product identifier and the hazards of the contents within. Employees utilized unlabeled squeeze bottles which contained paint solvents in Bay 2 and unlabeled paint cans for mixing colors in the Paint Storage Room.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.):   On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not ensure that Safety Data Sheets (SDS) were readily accessible to employees in their works areas of the Paint Department when the employee were working with hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to paints and solvents with flammable, health, and toxic hazards. The employer had online access to the AkzoNobel SDS library catalog; however, employees were trained and were not aware how to access SDS on that site. The employer did not have copies of the Safety-Kleen Ultra Kleen Spray Equipment Solution 5113 chemical accessible to employees.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide 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 have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets:    On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not provide employee information and training on the hazards of the chemical in their work areas. Painter and Paint Prep employees were exposed to chemical hazards such as, but not limited to paints and solvents with flammable, health, and toxic hazards.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(h)(2): Employees shall be informed of: (i) The requirements of this section; (ii) Any operations in their work area where hazardous chemicals are present; and (iii) The location and availability of the written hazard communication program, including the required list(s) of hazardous chemicals, and safety data sheets required by this section:   On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not inform employees of; the requirement of the Hazard Communication section; any operations in their work areas where hazardous chemicals were present. Painter and Paint Prep employees were exposed to chemical hazards such as, but not limited to paints and solvents with flammable, health, and toxic hazards.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(h)(3): Employee training shall include at least the topics from (h)(3)(i) through (h)(3)(iv) of this section:   On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not provide training to employees regarding:  (i) how employees could detect hazardous chemicals in the work areas;  (ii) the physical hazards, health hazards and combustible dust hazards of the chemicals in their work areas;  (iii) the measures employees could take to protect themselves from hazardous chemicals through procedures and/or personal protective equipment (PPE); and  (iv) the details of a hazard communication program including descriptions of labeling on containers and safety data sheets (SDS);   Painter and Paint Prep employees were exposed to chemical hazards such as, but not limited to paints and solvents with flammable, health, and toxic hazards.

Issued

Dec 27, 2024

Abate by

Jan 28, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.132(d)(2):  The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment:  On or about October 24, 2024, at a facility located at 6610 Wisconsin 44 in Pickett, WI; the employer did not verify through written certification, that a workplace hazard assessment for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) had been conducted when employees were required to wear safety glasses and were provided voluntary PPE such as but not limited to gloves.