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

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(i): The employer did not develop and implement written operating procedures that provided clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information that addressed steps for each operating phase: The employer is failing to protect employees from the hazards of explosion and fire by failing to include all manufacturing steps within the Tetrazene standard operating procedure. This was most recently documented at 25201 E. 78 Hwy, Independence, Missouri when an employee was fatality injured while breaking up Tetrazene inside the vacuum receiver in . The following are examples of missing steps within the Tetrazene standard operating procedure: (a) Wedging steps were not provided for the high explosive mixers who break up Tetrazene, an explosive compound that is dried inside the vacuum receiver in . (b) Step by step instructions detailing how to safely transfer tetrazene the vacuum receiver to a conductive black plastic bag lining a rubber bucket or transferring the tetrazene from the black plastic bags to the vacuum receiver in were not provided.