Text For Citation: 02 Item/Group: 003C Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1025(f)(1)(ii): Respirators for protection against lead were not used or were not provided when engineering and/or work-practice controls were not sufficient to reduce employee exposures to or below the permissible exposure limit. On or about August 17, 2018, and times prior thereto, Range worker(s) monitoring customers in the handgun range and rifle range were exposed to lead concentrations above 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air and were not required to use respirators while in the areas. This condition exposed employees to inhalation hazards: a) Range worker(s) in the rifle range to supervise customers using fire arms and perform range cleanup were exposed to Lead at an 8-hour Time Weighted Average (TWA) up to 1.669 milligrams per cubic meter of air, which is over 33 times the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The exposure level is derived from a sample collected over a 455-minute period and the calculations include a zero value for the 25 minutes not sampled. b) Range worker(s) in the handgun range to supervise customers using fire arms and perform range cleanup were exposed to Lead at an 8-hour TWA up to 1.151 millirams per cubic meter of air, which is over 23 times the PEL of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The exposure level is derived from a sample collected over a 413-minute period and the calculations include a zero value for the 67 minutes not sampled.