Amercable Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations
El Dorado, Arkansas · Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing · NAICS 335929
8inspections
28citation items
$39,764current penalties
Jul 24, 2024last inspection
Amercable Incorporated has 8 OSHA inspections on record in Arkansas, the first in 1982.
OSHA's last visit started on Jul 24, 2024 on a referral, in El Dorado.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 28 citation items: 12 serious and 16 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $83,263 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $39,764, down 52%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.95, noise (8 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. Amercable Incorporated averages $26,444 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
2 inspections on this page followed a fatal incident.
Amercable Incorporated 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.
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Incident on Jul 30, 2010 (fatal): Employee suffers electrical shock and is killed
On or about July 30, 2010, Employee #1, an electrical test technician, was leani ng over or downward to place completed pass/fail inspection reports in plastic b ags. The plastic bags were attached to the outside of the reels, near the arbor holes of wire which had previously undergone an, 8,000 volt, AC Voltage Withstan d Test. His head came in contact with the tip of an ungrounded conductor and ins ulation compounds. Employee #1 suffered a fatal electric shock. The path to grou nd was the employee's head through his left foot.
Incident on Mar 25, 1986 (fatal): Forklift operator crushed when forklift overturned onto him
A LARGE FORKLIFT WAS USED TO PLACE A 72 INCH REEL NEXT TO THE STORAGE DOCK IN TH E BACK REEL STORAGE AREA. A SECOND, SLIGHTLY SMALLER, FORKLIFT WAS USED TO PLACE A 78 INCH REEL IN THE THIRD SPOT FROM THE STORAGE DOCK. THE TWO FORKLIFTS ENDED UP RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. THE OPERATOR OF THE FIRST FORKLIFT, SEEING THAT HE HAD INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE TO BACK BY THE SECOND FORKLIFT, WAITED FOR THE SECON D FORKLIFT TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY. THE OPERATOR OF THE SECOND FORKLIFT (EMPLOYEE #1) BACKED AWAY FROM THE REEL, CLEARED THE FIRST FORKLIFT, AND BEGAN TO TURN. H E THEN BACKED OFF THE ROAD AND INTO A DRAIN CULVERT. HIS FORKLIFT OVERTURNED. EM PLOYEE #1 WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE FORKLIFT'S OVERHEAD GUARD AND THE CULVERT DRAI N. A RESCUE ATTEMPT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 1614965 OPENED JUN 25, 1984Closed
Planned · Complete · Safety · 117 employees at the site · Closed Aug 15, 1984
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the El Dorado site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 296 workers: 1.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.5 for its industry. Those cases cost 8 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
AmerCable Incorporated
El Dorado · 2025
296
3
1
1.0
1.5
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.
Jul 16, 2024, El Dorado: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
An employee was loading a reel into a take-up when the arbor arms came down on their right middle finger and it was caught between the dog pin and the drum. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.
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) With the exception of monitoring under paragraph (d)(3), the employer shall collect full shift (for at least 7 continuous hours) personal samples including at least one sample for each shift for each job classification in each work area.
29 CFR 1910.1025(l)(1)(i)
(l) Employee information and training—(1) Training program. (i) Each employer who has a workplace in which there is a potential exposure to airborne lead at any level shall inform employees of the content of Appendices A and B of this regulation.
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.
