Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 009 Hazard: REFINERY

1910.151(c)* Where the eyes or body of any person may be exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body shall be provided within the work area for immediate emergency use: Suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not always available or provided in the Alky Unit for immediate emergency use: 1. Employees eyes that could be exposed to injurious corrosive materials could not access suitable portable eye wash units for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes due to steam spraying in the direction of emergency portable eye station at the KOH. 2. Emergency shower was not immediately available in LPG Storage Area (not functioning) for use after a fire incident or when working around caustics in LPG (KOH area) in Alky unit. Employees were unable to use the closest emergency shower after being sprayed with LPG product that ignited and flashed/burned employees. Closest emergency shower unit was at the other end of LPG Storage Area (employees would be more than 10 seconds from emergency unit and would have to cross through LPG to reach working emergency shower. 3. Portable emergency eye wash unit was not being inspected weekly (inadvertently omitted per safety department). Ancillary Reference: American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z358.1-1998, Emergency showers shall be in accessible locations that require no more than 10 seconds to reach and should be within a travel distance no greater than 30.5 meters (100 feet) from the hazard. Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment, which states, at section 7.4.4, that eyewash facilities are to be located to require no more than 10 seconds to reach but that where a strong acid or caustic is used, the unit should be immediately adjacent to the hazard.