Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 015A Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: On or about 10/16/2015, at the facility located at 109 highway 1085 in Madisonville, LA, the employer allowed employees to work in areas where liquid nitrogen is used to freeze food and did not provide effective information and training. The employer allowed employees to work in areas with asphyxiants such as nitrogen, flammable gases such as acetylene, compressed gases such as oxygen, caustics such has sodium hydroxide, and anhydrous ammonia and did not provide effective information and training at the time of their initial assignment.