OSHA Inspection: TOTOS MAINTENANCE, LLC

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-09-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2128.00 · Current $1277.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user:  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged in property maintenance activities throughout various make-ready apartments at the facility were exposed to respiratory hazards when voluntarily using 3M 6503QL half mask elastomeric respirators. The employer did not ensure that employees using 3M 6503QL half mask elastomeric respirators voluntarily were medically able to use the respirator prior to permitting respirator use.

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-09-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2128.00 · Current $1277.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.253(b)(4)(i): Oxygen cylinders were stored near highly combustible material, especially oil and grease; or near reserve stocks of carbide and acetylene or other fuel-gas cylinders, or near other substance likely to cause or accelerate fire:  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged in property maintenance activities within the maintenance room were exposed to fire, explosion and struck-by hazards. Two compressed oxygen cylinders and two dissolved acetylene cylinders were stored directly next to and within the same storage area.

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2128.00 · Current $1277.00 Reduced

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:  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged in property maintenance activities were exposed to chemical hazards in that a written hazard communication program had not been developed, implemented and maintained at the facility. Employees are handling Kilz Original low odor interior primer, DAP Kwik Seal adhesive caulk, GLB large 3" chlorinating tablets, Airgas dissolved acetylene and Airgas compressed oxygen. The chemical hazards associated with these chemicals include: skin and eye irritation, drowsiness and/or dizziness, burns and/or frostbite, may displace oxygen and cause rapid suffocation, may form explosive mixtures with air, may cause or intensify fire and may explode if heated.

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-09-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged in property maintenance activities, handling Kilz Original low odor interior primer, DAP Kwik Seal adhesive caulk, GLB large 3" chlorinating tablets, Airgas dissolved acetylene and Airgas compressed oxygen, were exposed to chemical hazards. The employer did not provide employees with effective information and training on the chemical hazards associated with the chemicals employees use. The chemical hazards associated with these chemicals include: skin and eye irritation, drowsiness and/or dizziness, burns and/or frostbite, may displace oxygen and cause rapid suffocation, may form explosive mixtures with air, may cause or intensify fire and may explode if heated.

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-09-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged property maintenance activities throughout various make-ready apartments at the facility were exposed to respiratory hazards. Employees were permitted to voluntary use 3M 6503QL half mask elastomeric respirators in the workplace and were not provided the information contained in Appendix D of this standard.

Issued

2025-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):  At the workplace located at 6704 West 141st St. Overland Park, Kansas, employees engaged property maintenance activities, handling Kilz Original low odor interior primer, DAP Kwik Seal adhesive caulk, GLB large 3" chlorinating tablets, Airgas dissolved acetylene and Airgas compressed oxygen, are exposed to chemical hazards. The employer did not provide access to the Safety Data Sheets for Kilz Original low odor interior primer, DAP Kwik Seal adhesive caulk, GLB large 3" chlorinating tablets, Airgas dissolved acetylene and Airgas compressed oxygen chemicals. The chemical hazards associated with these chemicals include: skin and eye irritation, drowsiness and/or dizziness, burns and/or frostbite, may displace oxygen and cause rapid suffocation, may form explosive mixtures with air, may cause or intensify fire and may explode if heated.