OSHA Inspection: DOMESTIC KITCHENS, INC.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1): All places of employment, passageways, storerooms, and service rooms shall be kept clean and orderly and in a sanitary condition.    WORKSHOP:  The surfaces of the working/walking areas, machineries, electrical equipment and other areas that had accumulated wood dust that was generated during the operations of the power saws were not kept clean.      ABATRED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1): The employer shall assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). If such hazards are present, or likely to be present, the employer shall:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not assessed the workplace to determine the necessitate and appropriate types of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the employees.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1): The employer shall provide training to each employee who is required by this section to use PPE:   WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) were not provided with training and information at least in the training criteria listed on (f)(1)(i) through (f)(1)(v) of this section.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established and implemented a written worksite-specific respiratory protection program and procedures consisting of employee training, proper selection, fit testing, and medical evaluations where employees were required to wear full face piece cartridge respirators and dust/filtering face piece during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting, sanding, and cleaning.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): The employer shall provide the training prior to requiring the employee to use a respirator in the workplace.    WORKSHOP:  The employees required to wear the full facepiece cartridge respirators and dust filtering face pieces during the task such as (but not limited to) spray painting, sanding, and cleaning were not provided with training on the respiratory protection.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear half and full facepiece cartridge respirators and filtering facepices during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting, sanding and cleaning had not been medically evaluated for their ability prior to the employees fit tested and wearing the respirators.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2): 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.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to wear the full face piece cartridge respirators during the tasks, such as (but not limited to) spray painting had not been fit tested prior to initial wear.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative.    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established and implemented a site specific hazardous energy control lockout/tagout program consisting of machine specific step-by-step written procedures and employee training for the employees during servicing and maintenance of equipment, such as (but not limited to) Diehl rip saw and the router Therwood.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i): Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.   WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established and implemented step-by-step hazardous energy control procedures in machine specific for the employees during servicing and maintenance of equipment, such as (but not limited to) the Diehl rip saw and the routerTherwood.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i): The employer shall provide training to ensure that the purpose and function of the energy control program are understood by employees and that the knowledge and skills required for the safe application, usage, and removal of the energy controls are acquired by employees. The training shall include the following:  WORKSHOP:  The employees, as authorized, affected and other types were not provided with training and information in the controlling of potentially hazardous and unexpected releases of energy sources (lockout/tagout) during servicing and maintenance of equipment, such as (but not limited to) the Diehl rip saw and the router Therwood.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii): An evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance shall be conducted at least once every three years.    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not evaluated the performance of the powered industrial truck operators once in every three years.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(6): Certification. The employer shall certify that each operator has been trained and evaluated as required by this paragraph (l). The certification shall include the name of the operator, the date of the training, the date of the evaluation, and the identity of the person(s) performing the training or evaluation.  WORKSHOP:  The employer did not ensure through a written certification that the powered industrial truck (PIT) operators had been trained and evaluated.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(c)(1): Each circular hand-fed ripsaw shall be guarded by a hood which shall completely enclose that portion of the saw above the table and that portion of the saw above the material being cut. The hood and mounting shall be arranged so that the hood will automatically adjust itself to the thickness of and remain in contact with the material being cut but it shall not offer any considerable resistance to insertion of material to saw or to passage of the material being sawed.      WORKSHOP: The following table saws used for ripping and dadoing wood were not equipped with an adjustable hood guard and/or a suitable guard.    1.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.  2.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.   3.  Delta Rockwell Unisaw.    ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.    4.  Power matic 124 dado table saw.  5.  Furnas dado 10 blade table saw.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(c)(2): Each hand-fed circular ripsaw shall be furnished with a spreader to prevent material from squeezing the saw or being thrown back on the operator. The spreader shall be attached so that it will remain in true alignment with the saw even when either the saw or table is tilted.     WORKSHOP: The following table saw used for ripping was not equipped with a spreader to prevent the material from being thrown back on the operator.    1.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.  2.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.   3.  Delta Rockwell Unisaw.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(c)(3): Each hand-fed circular ripsaw shall be provided with nonkickback fingers or dogs so located as to oppose the thrust or tendency of the saw to pick up the material or to throw it back toward the operator. They shall be designed to provide adequate holding power for all the thicknesses of materials being cut.      WORKSHOP: The following table saw used for ripping was not equipped with nonkickback fingers or dogs.    1.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.  2.  Rockwell Delta table saw; model 12/14, tilting arbor saw.   3.  Delta Rockwell Unisaw.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.213(h)(2): Each radial saw used for ripping shall be provided with nonkickback fingers or dogs located on both sides of the saw so as to oppose the thrust or tendency of the saw to pick up the material or to throw it back toward the operator. They shall be designed to provide adequate holding power for all the thicknesses of material being cut.    WORKSHOP:  The following radial arm saws, used for ripping wood were not equipped with nonkickback fingers or dogs.    1.  DeWalt 13.  2.  DeWalt radial arm saw 102.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $800.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.305(g)(1)(i): Flexible cords and cables shall be approved for conditions of use and location.    WORKSHOP:  The flexible cords of the following saws went under and behind pieces of wood and were exposed to physical damages:    1.  Delta Rockwell Unisaw 10.  2.  Table saw, Furnas dado 10.    ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 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, material safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:    WORKSHOP:  The employer had not established and implemented a written hazard communication program where employees were required to work with chemicals, such as (but not limited to) the spray paints, stains, and lacquers.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 physical or health 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 material safety data sheets.    WORKSHOP:  The employees, required to work with chemicals, such as (but not limited to) spray paints, stains and lacquers were not provided with training and information in the chemical hazard communication program.

Issued

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(e)(2): Portable fire extinguishers were not visually inspected monthly.  WORKSHOP:  The portable fire extinguishers were not inspected on a monthly basis.  ABATED DURING THE INSPECTION.