Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 007B 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 complied with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.1052(g): (a) In the Converting Room, on or about December 14, 2016, a machine operator using C-287 solvent to clean ink off of zingers and rollers on Converting Machine #1 was exposed during a 15 minute sampling period to an airborne methylene chloride concentration of 161.3 parts per million, approximately 1.29 times the short term exposure limit of 125 parts per million. Control measures, including engineering controls and work practice controls, had not been implemented to limit employee exposure to methylene chloride to or below the short term exposure limit.