Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 008A 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 mg/m3: a) Grinding Court Yard, on or about 8/15/19: A maintenance employee changing out the Grinding Dust Collector filters was exposed to 10.96 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) of iron oxide fume, eight hour time weighted average (TWA), approximately 1.10 times the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 10.0 mg/m3. The sampling period was for 84 minutes. A zero increment is included for the 396 minutes not sampled. Employee was wearing a P100 Filtering Face Piece. b) Grinding Court Yard, on or about 8/15/19: A maintenance employee changing out the Grinding Dust Collector filters was exposed to 14.72 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) of iron oxide fume, eight hour time weighted average (TWA), approximately 1.47 times the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 10.0 mg/m3. The sampling period was for 89 minutes. A zero increment is included for the 391 minutes not sampled. Employee was wearing a P100 Filtering Face Piece.