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Standard Cited:5A0001 OSH Act General Duty Paragraph
| Violation Items | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nr: 1380771.015 | Citation: 01001 | Issuance: 05/20/2019 | ReportingID: 0751910 | ||
| Viol Type: | Serious | NrInstances: | 1 | Contest Date: | |
| Abatement Date: | 05/31/2019 2 | Nr Exposed: | 7 | Final Order: | 07/08/2019 |
| Initial Penalty: | $12,934.00 | REC: | R | Emphasis: | |
| Current Penalty: | $7,700.00 | Gravity: | 10 | Haz Category: | |
| Substance: | 0560 Carbon Monoxide (Co) | ||||
| Penalty and Failure to Abate Event History | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Event | Date | Penalty | Abatement | Type | FTA Insp | |
| Penalty | Z: Issued | 05/20/2019 | $12,934.00 | 05/31/2019 | Serious | ||
| Penalty | I: Informal Settlement | 07/08/2019 | $7,700.00 | 05/31/2019 | Serious | ||
Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001 Hazard:
Section 88.4 - Code of Iowa (2019): 88.4: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to: (a) Swine Nursery #1 - An employee was performing cleaning activities and was exposed to 150.4 parts carbon monoxide per million parts of air for an 8-hour TWA. The exposure concentration was determined by the employee's carboxyhemoglobin (%COHb) medical blood gas measurement following the employee's exposure. The employee was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning and received hyperbaric oxygen treatments. A feasible and acceptable method to correct this hazard is to limit exposure to carbon monoxide below the TLV-TWA of 25 ppm adopted by The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, through the use of engineering and administrative controls. This condition occurred on February 19th, 2019.