Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 004B Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1025(e)(1)(i): Where any employee is exposed to lead above the permissible exposure limit for more than 30 days per year, the employer shall implement engineering and work practice controls (including administrative controls) to reduce and maintain employee exposure to lead in accordance with the implementation schedule in Table I below, except to the extent that the employer can demonstrate that such controls are not feasible. Wherever the engineering and work practice controls which can be instituted are not sufficient to reduce employee exposure to or below the permissible exposure limit, the employer shall nonetheless use them to reduce exposures to the lowest feasible level and shall supplement them by the use of respiratory protection which complies with the requirements of paragraph (f) of this section. a. At the work site, employees who worked in the glass breaking line area were exposed to lead above the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL). The employer did not have functioning ventilation and/or work practice controls in place to contain, reduce and/or remove lead from the employee work area(s) in the glass line breaking area.