1241 Freedom Road,
Cranberry Township,
16066
Pennsylvania,
United States
The employer did not follow Pennsylvania Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for the following: 1. Biohazard bags are not being used for used COVID swabs and other potentially contaminated items. COVID contaminated garbage is mixed in with regular garbage bags throughout the building. 2. There are no cleaning practices in place for the office and in between patients. Equipment is not cleaned in between patients. 3. Clean PPE is stored next to used/dirty PPE. Used/dirty N95 masks are laying on desks, the lunch table, and other places throughout the building. 4. Some employees are not wearing facial coverings or personal protective equipment when seeing patients. 5. Staff walk through the waiting room and building with dirty PPE in between and after swabbing patients in the parking lot. 6. Training is not provided on the proper PPE to be used and how to don and doff it. 7. Training is not provided on how to perform swab tests on patients.
Alleged Hazards: 7, Employees Exposed: 6
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-10-26
