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

29 CFR 1910.1052(f)(1): The employer did not institute and maintain the effectiveness of engineering controls and work practices to reduce employee exposure to or below the permissible exposure limits and wherever the feasible engineering controls and work practices which can be instituted were not sufficient to reduce employee exposure to or below the 8-hour time weighted average permissible exposure limit or short term exposure limit, the employer did not use them to reduce employee exposure to the lowest levels achievable and did not supplement them by the use of respiratory protection that compiled with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.1052(g): a) In the Silk Screening Department, on or about 3/15/12: Effective engineering controls were not implemented where an employee had a short term exposure of 178 parts per million methylene chloride. Abatement documentation must be submitted for this item.