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

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(i)(D): The employer did not develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information that addressed emergency shutdown including the conditions under which emergency shutdown is required, and the assignment of shutdown responsibility to qualified operators to ensure that emergency shutdown is executed in a safe and timely manner: a) Ethylene Oxide Continuous Plant, Croda-Atlas Point. - On or about November 25, 2018, the employer failed to develop and implement written operating procedures to de-inventory the ethylene oxide from equipment, such as (but not limited to) that contained in the Purification Tower (T-430), to divert ethylene oxide away from Purification Column Steam Reboiler E-430, the location of the compromised flange leaking ethylene oxide, contributing to employee exposure to ethylene oxide.