Failure to Maintain Kitchen Equipment in Safe and Clean Condition
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified a deficiency in the facility’s failure to maintain kitchen equipment in safe operating condition and in a clean state. During an initial kitchen tour, they observed three torn door seals on three individual refrigerator doors on one refrigerator, one broken toaster, and another toaster missing a crumb catcher. Two of the three toasters were stored while full of bread crumbs. In addition, four full-size pans and four half pans were covered in a black hardened substance, two ovens were covered with a hardened black substance, one oven contained four silver pieces of material approximately the size of a golf ball, and a microwave had a dark splattered substance on its top and sides. In interviews, the Dietary Manager confirmed that kitchen equipment should be working and clean, and the Administrator confirmed that the equipment in the kitchen should be in good repair and clean.
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