Rilco Manufacturing, Houston, Texas

The employer is contesting a two-item serious citation, a two-item other-than-serious citation, and a penalty of $10,800. The serious citation is for alleged violations of 1910.106(e)(6)(i), for failure to take adequate precautions against the ignition of flammable vapors, and 1910.134(e)(1), for failure to provide a medical evaluation to determine an employee’s ability to use a respirator before the employee was required to use the respirator in the workplace. Other-than-serious citation items include an alleged violation of 1910.134(f)(1), for failure to ensure that employees required to use a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed the appropriate qualitative ...