Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001B Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.146(c)(2): When the workplace contains permit spaces, the employer did not inform exposed employees, by posting danger signs or by any other equally effective means, of the existence and location of and the danger posed by the permit spaces: a.) Ellwood Quality Steels Company , East Bay - On or about June 19, 2018 and on dates prior thereto: employees periodically entered 30 inch vertical molds during mold set-up operations. The molds contained, or potentially contained, hazards including, but not limited to, a hazardous atmosphere, and an internal configuration such that an entrant could be trapped by a floor which sloped downward and tapered to a smaller cross-section. The employer did not label nor post signs that identified the 30 inch vertical molds as permit required confined spaces.