Safety Report: Covid-19 OSHA Complaint, U.S. Dept of Justice-Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Old NC Hwy 75, P. O. Box 1600, BUTNER, NC, 27509, USA

3000 Old 75 Highway, Butner, 27509 North Carolina, United States

1. The employer is not ensuring that staff members including management personnel in the medical department and FCI 2 consistently wear face coverings. 2. Although PPE such as goggles, faceshields, gloves, and gowns may be available in the Lieutenant's office in the LC and LA units at FCI 2, it is not being made available to staff who perform duties such as but not limited to escorting/transporting inmates, entering rooms, opening food trap doors, providing medical care, and working in open areas with inmates in the COVID-19 isolation/quarantine units in accordance with the Recommended Use of PPE Table in the BOP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Plan. 3. Although some PPE use training has been provided for staff, some of the training sessions did not provide an opportunity for staff to ask questions and obtain clarification about proper donning and doffing, N-95 filtering facepiece reuse procedures, and recommended use criteria contained in the BOP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Plan, Module 2, Table 1. As a result some staff do not know when and how to use the COVID-19 PPE safely. 4. Until recently, water soluble bags were being required in accordance with BUX 4500.04.01F and management required their use in COVID-19 isolation/quarantine areas, which reduced the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The use of the water soluble bags was ended and the policy to use the bags was reversed, increasing the staff's risk of contracting COVID-19. 5. Not stationing Virex spray bottles in the staff bathrooms where they are expected to be used for frequent cleaning creates an unreasonable impediment to sanitizing bathroom surfaces. 6. General staff are not knowledgeable about surface sanitation procedures. 7. Inmates are being moved in and out of FCI 2 even though a COVID-19 outbreak exists. 8. Contact tracing is not being conducted to effectively quarantine staff and inmates and as a result staff are not being informed through official channels when they worked with inmates who recently tested positive. 9. Testing protocols are not implemented to identify the population of asymptomatic COVID-19 positive inmates in FCI 2 where an outbreak is occurring. 10. The employer is requiring staff to perform roof checks where there is a safety hazard due to missing rails on the mental health side.


Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2021-01-29