OSHA has inspected Alpha Baking Co., Inc. 4 times in Wisconsin since 2008.
The latest one began on Dec 8, 2021 as a planned inspection, in Manitowoc.
Those inspections ended with 16 citation items: 9 serious and 7 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $66,921 and now stand at $35,926, 46% lower after settlements or reviews.
Bakery equipment comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.263.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,874, and Alpha Baking Co., Inc. averages $35,926 (1 cited inspection).
Alpha Baking Co., Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Wisconsin · latest 90 days of OSHA records
231employers cited
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Manitowoc site logged 13 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 162 workers: 7.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 88 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Alpha Baking Manitowoc
Manitowoc · 2025
162
13
3
7.7
3.6
Alpha Baking Milwaukee
Cudahy · 2025
49
1
1
1.6
2.6
Manitowoc site
Manitowoc · 2024
185
8
3
4.0
3.6
Cudahy site
Cudahy · 2022
50
4
2
6.1
10.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Nov 30, 2015, Manitowoc: Hospitalization · cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages · brain
An employee was soldering a water pipe while standing on a 6 foot self supporting ladder. The employee fell from the ladder and was hospitalized for bleeding in the brain.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)
(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.
(i) An employer may provide respirators at the request of employees or permit employees to use their own respirators, if the employer determines that such respirator use will not in itself create a hazard. If the employer determines that any voluntary respirator use is permissible, the employer shall provide the respirator users with the information contained in appendix D to this section (“Information for Employees Using Respirators When Not Required Under the Standard”); and
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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.
