OSHA Inspection: TELCYCLE LLC

Issued

2025-06-06 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-07-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6384.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.22(a)(1): Surface conditions. The employer must ensure: All places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms, and walking-working surfaces are kept in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition.  a) On or about January 19, 2025, the employer did not ensure that walking-working surfaces were kept clean and in sanitary condition in that regular cleaning was not performed when dumping 3000 lb. bulk bags of crushed limestone over the top of the conveyor of the Sweed Shredder. Limestone was spread throughout the work area and was not regularly cleaned throughout the day to limit employee exposure to hazardous limestone dust containing respirable crystalline silica.  b) On or about January 25, 2025 at the Sweed Shredder, the employer did not ensure that electrical cables that were present for shredding were not laid across the floor in a manner that created tripping hazards for employees when entering and exiting the work area.

Issued

2025-06-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10641.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 C29 CFR  1910.134(c)(1): Respiratory protection program. 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. The employer shall include in the program the following provisions of this section, as applicable: (I) Procedures for selecting respirators for use in the workplace; (ii) Medical evaluations of employees required to use respirators; (iii) Fit testing procedures for tight-fitting respirators; (iv) Procedures for proper use of respirators in routine and reasonably foreseeable emergency situations; (v) Procedures and schedules for cleaning, disinfecting, storing, inspecting, repairing, discarding, and otherwise maintaining respirators; (vii) Training of employees in the respiratory hazards to which they are potentially exposed during routine and emergency situations; (viii) Training of employees in the proper use of respirators, including putting on and removing them, any limitations on their use, and their maintenance; and (ix) Procedures for regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the program.  a) On or about February 20, 2025,  the employer did not establish and implement a written respiratory program with worksite-specific procedures addressing sections 1910.134(i)through (v) and (vii) through (ix) for employees who were required to wear a Moldex 2600 N95 filtering facepiece respirator, when using crushed limestone which contains respirable crystalline silica, during shredding of electrical cables and when cleaning.

Issued

2025-06-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): General. 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.   a) On or about February 20, 2025,  the employer did not provide medical evaluations for employees who were required to wear Moldex 2600 N95 filtering facepiece respirators when using crushed limestone, which contains respirable crystalline silica, during the shredding of electrical cables and when cleaning.

Issued

2025-06-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): Fit testing. This paragraph requires that, before an employee may be required to use any respirator with a negative or positive pressure tight-fitting facepiece, the employee must be fit tested with the same make, model, style, and size of respirator that will be used. This paragraph specifies the kinds of fit tests allowed, the procedures for conducting them, and how the results of the fit tests must be used. The employer shall ensure that an employee using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator is fit tested prior to initial use of the respirator, whenever a different respirator facepiece (size, style, model or make) is used, and at least annually thereafter.   a) On or about February 20, 2025,  the employer did not ensure that employees were fit tested prior to being required to wear a Moldex 2600 N95 filtering facepiece respirator when using crushed limestone, which contains respirable crystalline silica, during the shredding of electrical cables and when cleaning.

Issued

2025-06-06 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-07-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8511.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.242(a): General requirements. Each employer shall be responsible for the safe condition of tools and equipment used by employees, including tools and equipment which may be furnished by employees.  a) On or about February 25, 2025, the employer did not ensure the safe condition of tools in that employees used a 32-inch two-hand-operated manual pair of standard cable cutters with only one hand and by securing the other handle with a portion of an FIBC bag, while a second employee placed cable between the blades with both of second employees hands located near the blades.