Alan Wire Company has 17 OSHA inspections on record in Missouri, the first in 1987.
OSHA's last visit started on Jun 24, 2025 on a referral, in Sikeston.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 32 citation items: 23 serious and 9 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $145,576 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $82,149, down 44%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.212, machine guarding (7 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. Alan Wire Company averages $10,814 over 6 cited inspections in that time.
Alan Wire Company also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 8 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Missouri · latest 90 days of OSHA records
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Incident on Nov 5, 2018: Employee lacerates neck when struck in neck by flying metal
At 5:00 p.m. on November 5, 2018, Employee #1 was using a hammer to strike and attempt to free a part. A piece of metal broke off from the part, and struck the employee in the neck. The employee was hospitalized for the neck laceration he sustained.
Incident on Feb 7, 2017: Employee falls from shelf and fractures wrist
At 8:30 p.m. on February 7, 2017, an employee was standing on a shelving unit that was between 11 and 15 feet above ground level. One of the shelves support beams became dislodged, causing the employee to fall to the cement floor below. He sustained a broken left wrist, which he was hospitalized and received treatment.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2018, the Sikeston site logged 16 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 341 workers: 4.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.9 for its industry. Those cases cost 53 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Alan Wire Company
Sikeston · 2018
341
16
5
4.8
2.9
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Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 8 reports on file, the 6 most recent shown.
Jun 17, 2025, Sikeston: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
An employee had been operating a copper wire repack machine. She turned the machine off and was fixing a stuck cylinder in it when the door that had been covering the cylinder closed on her fingers. Her left ring and middle fingertips were amputated by an air-operated plastic cutter inside the machine.
May 2, 2024, Sikeston: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · other finger(s) n.e.c.
An employee was retrieving a dropped wrench with his hand on a reel to brace himself. The cradle rocked, causing the wire bunching machine to lacerate his left little finger. This resulted in an amputation to the finger.
Dec 28, 2023, Sikeston: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was doing a repair in an office building. He was closing a bank vault door when his right index finger became caught between the door and the door frame resulting in amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was untangling a section of copper rod as it was being pulled through drawing equipment. The employee was possibly caught in the copper rod and fell from the payoff to the concrete floor, resulting in a head injury and leg fracture. The employee was found unconscious.
An employee was cleaning out a palletizer. The palletizer moved and its platform plate pinned the employee's left thigh against the frame of a holding table surface. The employee sustained contusions to the leg.
An employee was operating an extrusion take-up machine and caught his gloved hand between the wire and die resulting in amputation of the left index finger at the first knuckle.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
(ii) The physical, health, simple asphyxiation, combustible dust, and pyrophoric gas hazards, as well as hazards not otherwise classified, of the chemicals in the work area;
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.