OSHA Inspection: NUTRASTAR INC.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-01-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $3000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to fire, flash fire, deflagration, or explosion associated with combustible dust.   (a) Production Hallway Area- Employees were exposed to fire, deflagration and explosion hazards due to the Hi- VAC HV-875SP Model 875 Industrial Vacuum located inside the building was not designed and installed to protect employees from fire, deflagration and explosion hazards, collecting combustible dust from seventeen encapsulation/tablet production machines located in the individual Hallway rooms, on or about 5/13/23.  (b) Production Hallway Area-Employees were exposed to fire, deflagration and explosion hazards due to the Donaldson Model SME-72 Dust Collector was not designed and installed to protect employees from fire, deflagration, and explosion hazard, collecting combustible dust from seventeen encapsulation/tablet production rooms, on or about 5/13/23.  (c) Shipping area- Employees were exposed to fire, deflagration and explosion hazards from the exhaust vent from the Hi-VAC HV-875SP Model 875 Industrial Vacuum vent piping, which was not designed or installed properly such that it would protect employees from fire, deflagration, and explosion hazards. The vent was curved and extended 90 feet from the collector to the exit of the building, on or about 5/13/23.  (d) Production Hallway Area- The 4 inch PVC and metal piping ducts collecting combustible dust from the seventeen encapsulation/tablet production rooms and venting to the Donaldson dust collection system, Model SME-72, systems were not designed to prevent build up of static electricity, on or about 5/13/23.  (e) Production Hallway Area-Employees were exposed to fire, deflagration and explosion hazards when manually scooping, pouring and transferring combustible dust from PVC processing buckets into encapsulation/tablet machine hoppers with stainless steel scoops, on or about 5/13/23    NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-01-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $8000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances E200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.22(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that all places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms, and walking-working surfaces were kept in a clean, orderly, and sanitary condition.  a) Production Hallway Area: An accumulation of combustible dust was on the floors, walls, and machine surfaces throughout the production rooms and hallway, exposing employees to fire and explosion hazards, on or about 5/18/23.    NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $8000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.95(d)(1):When information indicated that any employee's exposure equaled or exceed the 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels, the employer did not develop and implement a monitoring program:  a) Room 11: The employer did not conduct noise monitoring for a machine operator who was exposed to continuous noise levels in excess of the allowable 8-hour time weighted average sound level. The employee's dosimeter reading was 109.3 % of the permissible level (90dBa) and was equivalent to approximately 90.6 dBa. The sampling was performed for 472 minutes during one shift on 8/2/23. Zero exposure was assumed for the un-sampled period of time.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-04-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $8000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.95(g)(1):The employer did not establish and maintain an audiometric testing program as provided by 29 CFR 1910.95(g) by making audiometric testing available to all employees whose exposures equaled or exceeded an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels:  a) Room 11: An audiogram was not provide to a machine operator who was exposed to continuous noise levels in excess of the allowable 8-hour time weighted average sound level. The employee's dosimeter reading was 109.3 % of the permissible level (90dBa) and was equivalent to approximately 90.6 dBa. The sampling was performed for 472 minutes during one shift un 8/2/23. Zero exposure was assumed for the un-sampled period of time.  NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-04-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $8000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.95(k)(1): The employer did not train each employee who was exposed to noise at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels in accordance with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.95(k). The employer did not institute a training program and ensure employee participation in the program:  a) Room 11: The employer did not ensure that a machine operator who was exposed to continuous noise levels in excess of the allowable 8-hour time weighted average sound level was provided training. The employee's dosimeter reading was 109.3 % of the permissible level (90dBa) and was equivalent to approximately 90.6 dBa. The sampling was performed for 472 minutes during one shift un 8/2/23. Zero exposure was assumed for the un-sampled period of time.  NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-01-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $14063.00 · Current $8000.00 Reduced

Hazardous substances E200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.307(c):Equipment, wiring methods, and installations of equipment in hazardous (classified) locations were not intrinsically safe, approved for the hazardous class II location, or safe for the hazardous class II location:  (a) Production Hallway: Electrical outlet boxes, normal lighting snap switches, overhead lighting, and encapsulating/tablet making machines, located in a class II, Division I location were not intrinsically safe and, approved for a Class II Division I location on or about 5/18/23.  NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-04-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $28125.00 · Current $17900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.147(c)(4)(i):Procedures were not developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section:  (a) Production Hallway: Employee did not utilize lockout tagout procedures when cleaning encapsulation machines in between runs and at the of the batch exposing them to rotating parts and crushing hazards, on or about 9/14/23.  NOTE: IN ADDITION TO ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION, THE EMPLOYER IS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS ITEM. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY OF $1000.00 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 29 CFR 1903.19.  Nutrastar was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1493816, citation number 1, item number 3 and was affirmed as a final order on 8/1/21, with respect to a workplace located at 700 Central Ave, Farmingdale, NJ 07727.

Issued

2023-11-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-12-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $401.00 · Current $100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.134(k)(6):The employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in Appendix D of 29 CFR 1910.134, in written or oral format to employees who wore respirators when such use was not required by the employer:  (a) Production Hallway Area: The employer did not provide the information in appendix D to employees that  voluntarily used N-95 respirators, on or about 5/18/23 .  Nutrastar was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard (name previously cited standard), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1493816, citation number 1, item number 2c and was affirmed as a final order on 1/8/21, with respect to a workplace located at 700 Central Ave, Farmingdale, NJ 07727.