Text For Citation: 03 Item/Group: 001C Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.133(a)(3): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee who wears prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards wears eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design, or wears eye protection that can be worn over the prescription lenses without disturbing the proper position of the prescription lenses or the protective lenses. a) On or about July 22, 2019, the employer did not ensure all employees working in the sorting department while wearing prescription lenses were required to wear ANSI compliant prescription eye protection or eye protection that can be worn over prescription lenses while working with and around powered tools, sparks caused by powered tools, and dust from spent brass casings. b) On or about November 7, 2019, the employer did not ensure all employees working in the sorting department while wearing prescription lenses were required to wear ANSI compliant prescription eye protection or eye protection that can be worn over prescription lenses while working with and around smokeless gunpowder dust.