Top Notch Masonry Inc., Monsey, N.Y.

The employer is contesting a four-item serious citation in six parts and a penalty of $10,321. The serious citation includes the alleged violations of 29 C.F.R. 1910.133(a)(1), for failure to ensure that each affected employee used appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation; 29 C.F.R. 1910.138(a), for failure to select and require employees to use appropriate hand protection when employees’ hands were exposed to hazards such as skin absorption of harmful substances, punctures, chemical burns, ...