Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 005B Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1000(a)(2): Employee(s) were exposed to an airborne concentration of iron oxide fume listed in Table Z-1 in excess of the 8 hour Time Weighted Average concentration of 10 milligrams per cubic meter: The employer is failing to protect employees from respiratory hazards including but not limited to limited to pneumoconiosis. This was most recently documented on July 20, 2017 at 8123 Christensen Ln, Omaha, NE 68122. The following monitored employee was overexposed to iron oxide fume in excess of the 8-hour Personal Exposure Limit (PEL): Welder #1 was exposed to iron oxide fume at an 8-hour time-weighted average of 27.3745 milligrams per cubic meter, 2.7375 times the PEL of 10 milligrams per cubic meter of air. Personal air sampling was performed for 444 minutes on 07/20/2017 while the employee MIG welded mild steel inside the enclosed box of a McNeilus refuse collection truck. Abatement certification and abatement documentation is required for this violation. The documentation should include written verification of abatement, applicable measurements or monitoring results, and photographs or videos which you believe will be helpful. The abatement certification sheet is enclosed with the citations. Step 1 - Effective respiratory protection shall be provided and used by exposed employees as an interim protective measure until feasible engineering and/or administrative controls can be implemented or whenever such controls fail to reduce employee exposure to within permissible exposure limits. (PPE - 30 days) Step 2 - Submit to the Area Director a written, detailed plan of abatement outlining a schedule for the implementation of engineering and/or administrative measures to control employee exposure to hazardous substances as referenced in this citation. This plan shall include, at a minimum, target dates for the following actions which must be consistent with abatement dates required by this citation: 1) Evaluation of engineering/administrative control option; 2) Selection of optimum control methods and completion of design; 3) Procurement, installation and operation of selected control measures; 4) Testing and acceptance or modification/redesign of controls. All proposed control measures shall be approved for each particular use by a competent industrial hygienist or other technically qualified person. Thirty (30) day progress reports are required during the abatement period. (Plan - 30 days) Step 3 - Abatement shall have been completed by the implementation of feasible engineering and/or administrative controls upon verification of their effectiveness in achieving compliance. (Engineering Controls - 90 days)