OSHA Inspection: R. STRESAU LABORATORY, INC.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Dec 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $8,441 · Current $6,753 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.119(d)(2)(i)(E): The employer failed to perform an evaluation of the consequences of deviations, including those effecting the safety and health of employees:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, a compilation of written process safety information to include initial and previous air monitoring results for heavy metals including, but not limited to, lead and cadmium was not utilized to evaluate the consequences of deviations that would affect employees' health.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Dec 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.119(e)(3)(vii): The process hazard analysis did not address a qualitative evaluation of a range of the possible safety and health effects of failure of controls on employees in the workplace:   (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, the process hazard analyses, including but not limited to, PHA-PCP-583, PHA-PCP-634 , PHA-PCP-732,  PHAs per buildings 2 and 10, and the PHA per GWI-SAF-4 Respiratory Protection did not sufficiently address employees' potential exposure to heavy metals including, but not limited to, lead and cadmium; to include failure of and lack of engineering controls such as ventilation, work practices, and personal protective equipment.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Dec 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.119 (f)(1)(iii)(B) The employer did not develop and implement written operating procedures that provided clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information that addressed health and safety considerations, such as precautions necessary to prevent exposure, including engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, Process Control Procedures (PCPs) including, but not limited to, PCP-583 (Job C717), PCP-634 (Job C846), PCP-732 (Job C866), GWI-SAF-21, and PCPs per buildings 2 and 10 did not provide clear instructions per use of ventilation controls and required use of respiratory protection consistent with personal exposure monitoring data to include lead and other heavy metals.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Aug 20, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1025(d)(2): An initial determination was not made to determine if any employee may be exposed to lead at or above the action level:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, the employer did not perform initial monitoring for lead to determine employee exposure per new and existing jobs such as, but not limited to,  C866, and C717.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Aug 20, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1027(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not determine the eight-hour TWA exposures to cadmium for each employee on the basis of one or more personal breathing zone samples reflecting full shift exposure on each shift, for each job classification, in each work area:   (a) Building 2, Chamber 2B; On or about November 20, 2024, the employer did not determine employees' exposure to cadmium during tasks including, but not limited to, chamber testing.   (b) Building 7; On or about November 20, 2024, the employer did not determine employees' exposure to cadmium per production of blasting caps.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Aug 20, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,220 · Current $3,376 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.119(o)(1): The employer did not certify that they have evaluated compliance with the provisions of this section at least every three years:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, the employer did not evaluate their compliance, per 29 CFR 1910.119 provisions, as required every three years.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Aug 20, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.119(o)(5): The employer did not retain the two most recent compliance audit reports:   (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, the employer did not retain the two most recent compliance audits.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Dec 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(C): Information pertaining to the equipment in the process did not include the electrical classification:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, documentation of electrical classification was not provided for all process covered areas and equipment that contained explosive materials.

Issued

Apr 4, 2025

Abate by

Aug 20, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.119(f)(1)(i)(D): The employer did not develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for emergency shutdown, including the conditions under which emergency shutdown is required, and the assignment of shutdown responsibility to qualified operators to ensure that emergency shutdown is executed in a safe and timely manner:  (a) Throughout the facility; On or about November 20, 2024, Process Control Procedures (PCPs), including but not limited to, PCP-583 (Job C717), PCP-634 (Job C846), and PCP-732 (Job C866), and PCPs per buildings 2 and 10 did not provide clear instructions per circumstances that required immediate shutdown of the process to include failure to maintain grounding and humidity, as well as inclement weather (i.e. lightning).