OSHA Inspection: MID-CITY PRECISION, LLC

Issued

May 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,128 · Current $1,490 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer must 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, and that the respirator is cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user. Exception: Employers are not required to include in a written respiratory protection program those employees whose only use of respirators involves the voluntary use of filtering facepieces (dust masks).  a) On or about and at times to March 11, 2025, at the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not establish and implement a written respiratory protection program for each employee that was provided with a voluntary use respirator. An employee was provided with and wore a half-face tight-fitting elastomeric respirators for voluntary use.  Key provisions in a voluntary use respiratory protection program include, but are not limited to the following: 1) Medical evaluations for respirator use 2) Information/training on cleaning, maintenance, and storage components 3) Recordkeeping

Issued

May 1, 2025

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.  At the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine each employee's ability to use a half-face tight-fitting elastomeric respirator when worn voluntarily, exposing each employee to the hazards associated inadequate physical/physiological capability.

Issued

May 1, 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.  At the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not provide training, such as but not limited to information on cleaning, maintenance, and storage components, and information on respirators in Appendix D of this section, to each employee that voluntarily wore a half-face tight-fitting elastomeric respirator.

Issued

May 1, 2025

Abate by

May 30, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,128 · Current $1,490 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.  a) On or about and at times prior to March 11, 2025, at the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not develop or implement a written hazard communication program when employees worked with hazardous chemicals, such as but not limited to acetone, argon, brake cleaner, oxygen, and propane, exposing employees to chemical hazards.   All provisions of 29 CFR 1910.1200(e) through (h) must be contained in a written hazard communication program. Key elements include but are not limited to the following: 1) Complete collection of safety data sheets 2) List of all hazardous chemicals 3) Container labeling 4) Employee information and training.

Issued

May 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 0040

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(g)(1): Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.  a) On or about and at times prior to March 11, 2025, at the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not have a safety data sheet (SDS) in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they used, such as but not limited to acetone, exposing employees to chemical hazards.

Issued

May 1, 2025

Abate by

May 30, 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.  a) On or about and at times prior to March 11, 2025, at the facility located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not ensure that employees working with hazardous chemicals, such as but not limited to acetone, argon, brake cleaner, oxygen, and propane, were provided effective information and training on the hazardous chemicals, exposing employees to chemical hazards.

Issued

May 1, 2025

Abate by

May 30, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 8370

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.252(b)(2)(iii): Protection from arc welding rays. Where the work permits, the welder should be enclosed in an individual booth painted with a finish of low reflectivity such as zinc oxide (an important factor for absorbing ultraviolet radiations) and lamp black, or shall be enclosed with noncombustible screens similarly painted. Booths and screens shall permit circulation of air at floor level. Workers or other persons adjacent to the welding areas shall be protected from the rays by noncombustible or flameproof screens or shields or shall be required to wear appropriate goggles.  a) On or about March 11, 2025, at the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not ensure that welding work performed was enclosed by an individual booth, noncombustible or flameproof screens, or requiring the use of appropriate goggles to protect employees working in the adjacent area from ultraviolet radiation generated by welding, exposing employees to the hazards associated with ultraviolet radiation.

Issued

May 1, 2025

Abate by

Jun 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 0689

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1026(d)(1): Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this section shall determine the 8-hour TWA exposure for each employee exposed to chromium (VI). This determination shall be made in accordance with either paragraph (d)(2) or paragraph (d)(3) of this section.  a) On or about and at times prior to March 5, 2025, at the establishment located at 406 Winton Street, Wausau, Wisconsin; the employer did not determine the 8-hour TWA exposure for an employee exposed to chromium (VI) while welding on stainless steel, exposing an employee to health hazards associated with chromium (VI).