Kerman, California · Nitrogenous Fertilizer Manufacturing · NAICS 325311
4inspections
10citation items
$19,900current penalties
Apr 12, 2018last inspection
Actagro, LLC has 4 OSHA inspections on record in California, the first in 2017.
OSHA's last visit started on Apr 12, 2018 after a complaint, in Kerman.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 10 citation items: 2 serious and 8 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $19,900 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Actagro, LLC averages $9,950 over 2 cited inspections in that time.
Actagro, LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Jan 11, 2017: Employee falls into tank of a reactor vessel and suffers bur
At 7:45 p.m. on January 11, 2017, an employee was on top of a reactor vessel to add a defoaming agent. The employee fell down and submerged from his waist down in a liquid mixture containing acetic acid, potassium hydroxide, and PM1500. The employee suffered second degree burns to his waist, buttocks, scrotum, knees, thighs, and feet. The employee was hospitalized.
No citations from this inspection.
Injury and illness logs
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2018, the Kerman site logged 6 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 50 workers: 11.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 3 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Biola, California
Kerman · 2018
50
6
2
11.2
1.6
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
Other nitrogenous fertilizer manufacturing employers in California
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