OSHA Inspection: BLUE OX MALTHOUSE, LLC.

Issued

2025-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3547.00 · Current $1064.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.22(c): The employer did not provide, and ensure each employee uses, a safe means of access and egress to and from walking-working surfaces.  Germination Room - The working walking surface access and egress was blocked by a crossbar, preventing safe access to the platform working area.

Issued

2025-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4965.00 · Current $1490.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.28(b)(1)(i)(A):The employer did not ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet or more above a lower level was protected from falling by a standard guardrail system:  Germination Room Mezzanine - The employer did not ensure that employees working on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet or more above a lower level were protected from falling by a standard guardrail system.

Issued

2025-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2): The employer did not verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that included the requirements as outlined in 29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2):   Worksite - The Employer did not assess hazards in the workplace, such as the large and small germination rooms and mezzanine, for fall hazards or airborne contaminants, and their administrative elimination of hazards that require the use of personal protective equipment.

Issued

2025-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-06-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  Worksite - The employer did not establish and implement elements of a written program necessary to ensure that employees use a respirator voluntarily for dust, or other respirable debris, cleaned, stored, and maintained it as appropriate. The employer did not ensure that employees had appropriate storage to prevent a health hazard to the user.

Issued

2025-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(6): The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in appendix D of this section, shall be provided by the employer in any written or oral format, to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer.  Worksite - 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 as required to employees who wear respirators.