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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations

North Syracuse, New York · Medical Laboratories · NAICS 621511

3inspections
12citation items
$17,650current penalties
Apr 16, 2015last inspection

OSHA has inspected Quest Diagnostics Incorporated 3 times in New York since 2006.

The latest one began on Apr 16, 2015 after a complaint, in Rye Brook.

Those inspections ended with 12 citation items: 3 serious and 9 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $36,750 and now stand at $17,650, 52% lower after settlements or reviews.

Bloodborne pathogens comes up most often in these citations: 10 items under 1910.1030.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for health care employers since 2015 is $1,050, and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated averages $0 (1 cited inspection).

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated: OSHA citation items per year, 2006 to 2015
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 340562735 OPENED APR 16, 2015Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 3 employees at the site · Closed Aug 16, 2016

6 Rye Ridge Plaza, Rye Brook, NY 10573 · Medical Laboratories · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)(b) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$4,250$0Oct 16, 2015Final

Inspection 339286288 OPENED AUG 13, 2013Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 4 employees at the site · Closed Apr 7, 2014

78 Todt Hill Rd., Staten Island, NY 10310 · Medical Laboratories · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$5,000$0Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(3) · Bloodborne pathogens
Serious$7,000$3,970Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(3)(ii) · Bloodborne pathogens
Serious$7,000$3,970Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(4)(ii)(a) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$5,000$5,000Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(4)(ii)(b) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$0$0Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 4c
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(4)(ii)(c) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$0$0Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 4d
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(4)(ii)(d) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$0$0Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(j) · Bloodborne pathogens
Serious$7,000$3,960Dec 20, 2013Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.1030(h)(3)(ii) · Bloodborne pathogens
Other-than-serious$0$0Dec 20, 2013Final

Inspection 309381994 OPENED MAY 30, 2006Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 30 employees at the site · Closed Jul 21, 2006

200 Gateway Park Drive, North Syracuse, NY 13212 · Medical Laboratories · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.157(c)(1) · Portable fire extinguishers
Other-than-serious$1,500$750Jun 7, 2006Closed
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.157(g)(3) · Portable fire extinguishers
Other-than-serious$0$0Jun 7, 2006Closed

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1030 · Bloodborne pathogens

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)

(iv) The Exposure Control Plan shall be reviewed and updated at least annually and whenever necessary to reflect new or modified tasks and procedures which affect occupational exposure and to reflect new or revised employee positions with occupational exposure. The review and update of such plans shall also:

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)(b)

(B) Document annually consideration and implementation of appropriate commercially available and effective safer medical devices designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure.

29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(3)

(3) Post-exposure Evaluation and Follow-up. Following a report of an exposure incident, the employer shall make immediately available to the exposed employee a confidential medical evaluation and follow-up, including at least the following elements:

29 CFR 1910.157 · Portable fire extinguishers

Other medical laboratories employers in New York

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