Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002B Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1047(g)(2): The employer did not implement a respiratory protection program in accordance with Sec. 1910.134(b) through (d) (except (d)(1)(iii)), and (f) through (m), which covers each employee required by 29 CFR 1910.1047 to use a respirator: At a worksite located at 2610 NE Industrial Drive, North Kansas City, MO: Employees were exposed to toxic or hazardous substances in the form of ethylene oxide. Exposure concentrations were greater than the OSHA action level of 0.5 parts per million (0.5ppm) of air averaged over an eight-hour period. The employer failed to ensure that a respiratory protection program was implemented for employees who had exposure to ethylene oxide in their breathing zone that was representative of the 8-hour time-weighted average of each employee. This was most recently demonstrated on or about August 7, 2024, when an employee in gas injection was exposed to airborne ethylene oxide at a level of 0.72 ppm of air as an 8-hour time-weighted average (8-hour TWA) for a monitoring period of approximately 474 minutes. The remaining un-sampled period of 6 minutes is assumed to have zero exposure.