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Highpower Validation Testing & Lab Services: OSHA inspections and violations

Rochester, New York · Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services · NAICS 541690

1inspections
8citation items
$13,752current penalties
Aug 12, 2016last inspection

OSHA has inspected Highpower Validation Testing & Lab Services once in New York.

The inspection began on Aug 12, 2016 after a complaint, in Rochester.

That inspection ended with 8 citation items: 8 serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $22,802 and now stand at $13,752, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.

Ethylene oxide comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.1047.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for professional services employers since 2015 is $1,821, and Highpower Validation Testing & Lab Services averages $13,752 (1 cited inspection).

Highpower Validation Testing & Lab Services: OSHA citation items per year, 2016 to 2016
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341697753 OPENED AUG 12, 2016Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 20 employees at the site · Closed Dec 16, 2016

125 Highpower Road, Rochester, NY 14623 · Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.134(c) · Respiratory protection
 Serious$2,850$3,563Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1) · Respiratory protection
 Serious$2,850$0Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 1c
29 CFR 1910.134(k) · Respiratory protection
 Serious$2,850$0Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.1047(d)(1)(ii) · Ethylene oxide
 Serious$3,563$3,563Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.1047(d)(2)(i) · Ethylene oxide
 Serious$0$0Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.1047(h)(1)(i) · Ethylene oxide
 Serious$3,563$3,063Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 6a Serious$3,563$3,563Nov 8, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 6b
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$3,563$0Nov 8, 2016Final

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.1047 · Ethylene oxide

29 CFR 1910.1047(d)(1)(ii)

(ii) Representative 8-hour TWA employee exposure shall be determined on the basis of one or more samples representing full-shift exposure for each shift for each job classification in each work area. Representative 15-minute short-term employee exposures shall be determined on the basis of one or more samples representing 15-minute exposures associated with operations that are most likely to produce exposures above the excursion limit for each shift for each job classification in each work area.

29 CFR 1910.1047(d)(2)(i)

(2) Initial monitoring. (i) Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard, except as provided for in paragraph (a)(2) or (d)(2)(ii) of this section, shall perform initial monitoring to determine accurately the airborne concentrations of EtO to which employees may be exposed.

29 CFR 1910.1047(j)(3)(ii)(a)

(A) The requirements of this section with an explanation of its contents, including Appendices A and B;

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.134 · Respiratory protection

Other other scientific and technical consulting services employers in New York

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