Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 003 Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.133(a)(3): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee who wears prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards wears eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design, or wears eye protection that can be worn over the prescription lenses without disturbing the proper position of the prescription lenses or the protective lenses. a. At the work site, employees wearing prescription eyewear were not provided with safety glasses to be worn over their prescription eyewear nor prescription safety glasses. These employees were exposed to flying metal pieces and sparks during the cutting and welding of metal wire.