OSHA has cited 29 CFR 1910.1024 116 times since 2015, against 25 employers. Penalties on these items add up to $137,642 at their current amounts.
Citations per year
The parts of the rule cited most
1910.1024(f)(1)(i) · 12 citations
(f) Methods of compliance—(1) Written exposure control plan. (i) The employer must establish, implement, and maintain a written exposure control plan, which must contain:
1910.1024(d)(1) · 11 citations
(d) Exposure assessment—(1) General. The employer must assess the airborne exposure of each employee who is or may reasonably be expected to be exposed to airborne beryllium in accordance with either the performance option in paragraph (d)(2) or the scheduled monitoring option in paragraph (d)(3) of this standard.
1910.1024(c)(1) · 7 citations
(c) Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs)—(1) Time-weighted average (TWA) PEL. The employer must ensure that no employee is exposed to an airborne concentration of beryllium in excess of 0.2 µg/m 3 calculated as an 8-hour TWA.
1910.1024(f)(2)(i) · 5 citations
(2) Engineering and work practice controls. (i) The employer must use engineering and work practice controls to reduce and maintain employee airborne exposure to beryllium to or below the PEL and STEL, unless the employer can demonstrate that such controls are not feasible. Wherever the employer demonstrates that it is not feasible to reduce airborne exposure to or below the PELs with engineering and work practice controls, the employer must implement and maintain engineering and work practice controls to reduce airborne exposure to the lowest levels feasible and supplement these controls using respiratory protection in accordance with paragraph (g) of this standard.
1910.1024(e)(1)(i) · 4 citations
(e) Beryllium work areas and regulated areas—(1) Establishment. (i) The employer must establish and maintain a beryllium work area wherever the criteria for a “beryllium work area” set forth in paragraph (b) of this standard are met.
1910.1024(c)(2) · 3 citations
(2) Short-term exposure limit (STEL). The employer must ensure that no employee is exposed to an airborne concentration of beryllium in excess of 2.0 µg/m 3 as determined over a sampling period of 15 minutes.
1910.1024(g)(2) · 3 citations
(2) Respiratory protection program. Where this standard requires an employer to provide respiratory protection, the selection and use of such respiratory protection must be in accordance with the Respiratory Protection standard (§ 1910.134).
1910.1024(i)(2) · 3 citations
(2) Change rooms. In addition to the requirements of paragraph (i)(1)(i) of this standard, the employer must provide employees who are required to use personal protective clothing or equipment under paragraph (h)(1)(ii) of this standard with a designated change room in accordance with this standard and the Sanitation standard (§ 1910.141) where employees are required to remove their personal clothing.
Industries cited most
- Manufacturing 109
- Wholesale Trade 4
- Construction 2
- Retail Trade 1
States cited most
- Michigan 34
- Massachusetts 12
- New Hampshire 12
- Illinois 11
- Texas 9
- Ohio 7
- Tennessee 7
- North Carolina 3
Recently cited employers
- First Call Parts, Inc. Salem, VA · Jul 14, 2026
- Sterling Metal Works dba Liberty Cast Products LLC Sterling Heights, MI · Feb 25, 2026