Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 008D Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.146(k)(2)(iv): The employer did not ensure that affected employees practice making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months, by means of simulated rescue operations in which they remove dummies, manikins, or actual persons from the actual permit spaces or from representative permit spaces. Representative permit spaces shall, with respect to opening size, configuration, and accessibility, simulate the types of permit spaces from which rescue is to be performed. a) On or about December 1, 2020 through December 11, 2020, Kroeschell Engineering Co., Inc. did not ensure that employees practiced making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months prior to entries made by Kroeschell Engineering Co., Inc. employees in to steam vault SV1.4 on the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center campus for performance of removal and replacement of a flexible expansion joint on a 12" high pressure steam line