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29 CFR 1910.1025(e)(1)(i): For any employees exposed to lead above the permissible exposure limit for more than 30 days per year where engineering and work practice controls (including administrative controls) were feasible but did not reduce the employees' exposure to or below the permissible exposure limit the employer did not use engineering and/or work practice controls to reduce exposures to the lowest feasible level: At a worksite located at 4722 Pear Street, St. Joseph, MO: Employees were exposed to toxic lead. Exposure concentrations were greater than the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) of fifty micrograms per cubic meter (50 ug/m3) of air averaged over an eight-hour period for more than 30 days per year. The employer failed to provide engineering and work practice controls that effectively reduced and maintained employee exposure below the OSHA PEL. This was most recently demonstrated on or about June 17, 2024, an employee in COS was exposed to airborne lead at a level of 140 micrograms of lead per cubic meter (ug/m3) of air as an eight-hour time-weighted average (8-hour TWA) for a monitoring period of approximately 461 minutes. The remaining un-sampled period of 19 minutes is assumed to have zero exposure.