OSHA has inspected Alpla Inc. 3 times in Missouri since 2010.
The latest one began on Jul 26, 2016 on a referral, in Saint Peters.
Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 8 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $45,874 and now stand at $26,182, 43% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Alpla Inc. averages $11,336 (2 cited inspections).
Alpla Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2021, the Jefferson City site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 101 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
Oct 19, 2018, Jefferson City: Hospitalization · soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury · hip(s)
On 10/19/2018 at 6:30 PM, an employee was trying to pick up a box when he fell over and hit his hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
Jul 22, 2016, Saint Peters: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
While cleaning the interior of a regrind tank an employee sustained a right ring finger amputation and a partial middle finger amputation. The rotating valves were not guarded at the time.
Jul 6, 2015, Jefferson City: Hospitalization · traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified · nonclassifiable
An AME palletizing machine had been installed to palletize bottles/stack them on plastic trays. An employee noticed that the machine had trays that were sideways. He opened the gate and entered the machine to straighten the trays. The crane inside the machine activated while he was inside, striking him and crushing him against the side of the machine.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
