![]() ![]() Kaman was founded in 1945 by aviation pioneer Charles Kaman and is headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. OSHA says Kaman has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s area director, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. “This employer must ensure a safe, healthful work environment by monitoring worker exposure, implementing controls to reduce and minimize exposure levels and provide employees with information about the toxic substances with which they work.” “Our inspection found Kaman Air Vehicles failed to protect employees as required from potentially serious health conditions,” says OSHA Acting Area Director Christine George in Hartford, Connecticut. Label tanks containing hazardous substances with information on the hazards associated with their contents.Provide employees with appropriate information and training on chromium hazards.Periodically examine nostrils of exposed employees.Ensure exposed employees used effective respiratory protection.Provide employees with appropriate personal protective equipment, including chemical-resistant gloves and impervious aprons, and ensure their use.Implement controls and work practices to reduce employees’ overexposure to chromium.Assess employees’ overexposure to cadmium during plating operations.Determine employees’ exposure to hexavalent chromium.Specifically, OSHA inspectors say the company failed to: OSHA cited Kaman for two willful, four serious, and two other-than-serious violations and proposed $308,168 in penalties. OSHA says it conducted the inspection under its National Emphasis Program on Hexavalent Chromium. OSHA inspectors claim Kaman employees faced exposure and possible overexposure to the toxic substances while electroplating, mixing and preparing, and painting and removing paint on small aircraft parts. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says Kaman did not take required steps to identify potential exposures and protect employees from hexavalent chromium and cadmium – both known carcinogens – at its Bloomfield facility.į reached out to Kaman officials for comment on the charges, but has not received a reply. ![]() Kaman Air Vehicles, an aircraft parts manufacturer in Connecticut, faces a possible $308,168 fine for allegedly failing to protect employees from toxic substance exposures. ![]()
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