OSHA Inspection: LLOYD INDUSTRIES, INC.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $70000.00 · Current $7000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(6): At least annually after obtaining the baseline audiogram, the employer does not obtain a new audiogram for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels :    a.) 75D Assembly Department -  One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee assembling fire dampers who was exposed to noise at 82.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 470 minutes on December 15, 2014. A zero exposure was assumed for the 10 minutes not sampled.  For the 480 minute work shift employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 88.6 dBA, which is 1.04 times the Action Level of 85 dBA. Annual audiograms were not provided between October 2012 and December 2014, or approximately 26 months.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that an annual audiogram is obtained for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels.      LLOYD INDUSTRIES WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD, WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 311271134, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1a  AND INSPECTION NUMBER 30817214, CITTION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1b, WITH RESPECT TO THE WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 231 COMMERCE DRIVE, MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $70000.00 · Current $7000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(6): At least annually after obtaining the baseline audiogram, the employer does not obtain a new audiogram for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels :    a.) 75D Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with the standard involves an employee roll forming and then assembling the frames who was exposed to noise at 67.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 555 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 9.25 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 86.1 dBA, which is 1.02 times the reduced action level of 84.1 dBA. Annual audiograms were not provided between October 2012 and December 2014, or approximately 26 months.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that a new annual audiogram is obtained for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels.    LLOYD INDUSTRIES WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD, WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 311271134, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1a  AND INSPECTION NUMBER 30817214, CITTION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1b, WITH RESPECT TO THE WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 231 COMMERCE DRIVE, MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $70000.00 · Current $7000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(g)(6): At least annually after obtaining the baseline audiogram, the employer does not obtain a new audiogram for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels :    a.) 75A Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee manufacturing the vanes/blades who was exposed to noise at 82.6% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 606 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 10.1 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 87.0 dBA, which is 1.04 times the reduced Action Level of 83.3 dBA.  Annual audiograms were not provided between October 2012 and December 2014, or approximately 26 months.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that a new annual audiograms is obtained for each employee exposed at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels.    LLOYD INDUSTRIES WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD, WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 311271134, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1a  AND INSPECTION NUMBER 30817214, CITTION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1b, WITH RESPECT TO THE WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 231 COMMERCE DRIVE, MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $7000.00

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(k)(2): The training program is not repeated annually for each employee included in the hearing conservation program:    a.) 75D Assembly Department -  One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves  an employee assembling fire dampers who was exposed to noise at 82.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during  measurements performed for 470 minutes on December 15, 2014. A zero exposure was assumed for the 10 minutes not sampled.  For the 480 minute work shift employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 88.6 dBA, which is 1.04 times the action level of 85 dBA.  The employer does not ensure employees participated in a noise training program in accordance with the requirements of this standard.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that employees are trained in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.95(k).      b.) 75D Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee roll forming and assembling the frames who was exposed to noise at 67.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 555 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 9.25 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 86.1 dBA, which is 1.02 times the reduced action level of 84.1 dBA.  The employer does not ensure employees participated in a noise training program in accordance with the requirements of this standard.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that employees are trained in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.95(k).      c.) 75A Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee manufacturing the vanes/blades who was exposed to noise at 82.6% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 606 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 10.1 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 87.0 dBA, which is 1.04 times the reduced action level of 83.3 dBA.  The employer does not ensure employees participated in a noise training program in accordance with the requirements of this standard.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that employees are trained in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.95(k).      LLOYD INDUSTRIES WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD, WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 311271134, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1a  AND INSPECTION NUMBER 30817214, CITTION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1b, WITH RESPECT TO THE WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 231 COMMERCE DRIVE, MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $32000.00 · Current $3500.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 00400420108021502460

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees are 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:    a.)   Plant Wide -  New employees who are performing various welding and maintenance activities such as spray painting over welds and who are exposed to a variety of hazardous chemicals including but not limited to; Sherwin-Williams silver spray paint and WD-40, are not provided training on the hazards of these chemicals on or about November 13, 2014.  The employers ongoing obligation is to provide employees effective information and training on the hazardous chemicals in their work areas.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-05-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.33(a): The employer did not maintain the OSHA 300 log, the privacy case list, the annual summary and the OSHA 301 Incident Report forms for five (5) years following the end of the calendar year that those records covered:    Establishment, On or about November 13, 2014;           a. The employer did not maintain the 2010 OSHA 300 log.           b. The employer did not maintain the 2011 OSHA 300 log.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-05-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.32(b)(6): The annual summary was not posted between February 1 of the year following the year covered by the records and kept in place until April 30 at the work site:    a. Establishment - On or about April 27 of 2015 the employer did not post the OSHA 300 log or an equivalent.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-05-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(d)(1)(i): The employer's sampling strategy is not designed to identify employees for inclusion in the hearing conservation program and to enable the proper selection of hearing protectors:   a.)  75D Assembly Department -  One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee, assembling fire dampers, who was exposed to noise at 82.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during  measurements performed for 470 minutes on December 15, 2014. A zero exposure was assumed for the 10 minutes not sampled.  For the 480 minute work shift employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 88.6 dBA, which is 1.04 times the Action Level of 85 dBA. The sampling strategy for conducting representative monitoring was not designed to identify employees in the hearing conservation program or to enable the proper selection of hearing protectors because the employee conducting the monitoring did not know how to conduct monitoring or how to operate or calibrate the equipment, was not sufficiently trained to recognize that the results were obviously inaccurate, and the employer was not informed of the monitoring results in any event.    The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that monitoring conducted is representative of actual employee noise exposure in the work place.   b.) 75D Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee, manufacturing and assembling frames, who was exposed to noise at 67.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 555 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 9.25 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 86.1 dBA, which is 1.02 times the reduced Action Level of 84.1 dBA.  The sampling strategy for conducting representative monitoring was not designed to identify employees in the hearing conservation program or to enable the proper selection of hearing protectors because the employee conducting the monitoring did not know how to conduct monitoring or how to operate or calibrate the equipment, was not sufficiently trained to recognize that the results were obviously inaccurate, and the employer was not informed of the monitoring results in any event.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that monitoring conducted is representative of actual employee noise exposure in the work place.   c.) 75A Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee, manufacturing vanes/blades, who was exposed to noise at 82.6% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 606 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 10.1 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 87.0 dBA, which is 1.04 times the reduced Action Level of 83.3 dBA.   The sampling strategy for conducting representative monitoring was not designed to identify employees in the hearing conservation program or to enable the proper selection of hearing protectors because the employee conducting the monitoring did not know how to conduct monitoring or how to operate or calibrate the equipment, was not sufficiently trained to recognize that the results were obviously inaccurate, and the employer was not informed of the monitoring results in any event.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that monitoring conducted is representative of actual employee noise exposure in the work place.

Issued

2015-05-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

Hazardous substances 8111

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(d)(2)(ii): Instruments used to measure employee noise exposure are not calibrated to ensure measurement accuracy:    a.)  75D Assembly Department -  One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee assembling fire dampers who was exposed to noise at 82.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during  measurements performed for 470 minutes on December 15, 2014. A zero exposure was assumed for the 10 minutes not sampled.  For the 480 minute work shift employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 88.6 dBA, which is 1.04 times the action level of 85 dBA.  The employer did not calibrate the Extech Sound level Meter prior to taking noise level readings in the work place.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that noise exposure monitoring is conducted with a properly calibrated instrument.     b.) 75D Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee manufacturing and assembling the frames who was exposed to noise at 67.3% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 555 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 9.25 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 86.1 dBA, which is 1.02 times the reduced action level of 84.1 dBA.  The employer did not calibrate the Extech Sound level Meter prior to taking noise level readings in the work place.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that noise exposure monitoring is conducted with a properly calibrated instrument.     c.) 75A Assembly Department - One instance of the employer's continuing failure to comply with this standard involves an employee manufacturing the vanes/blades who was exposed to noise at 82.6% of the permissible daily noise exposure limit during measurements performed for 606 minutes on December 15, 2014.  For the 10.1 hour extended work shift, employees would be exposed to the equivalent of an average sound level of 87.0 dBA, which is 1.04 times the reduced action level of 83.3 dBA.  The employer did not calibrate the Extech Sound level Meter prior to taking noise level readings in the work place.  The employer's ongoing obligation is to ensure that noise exposure monitoring is conducted with a properly calibrated instrument.