OSHA has inspected Aps Stevedoring, LLC once in Georgia.
The inspection began on Nov 17, 2019 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Brunswick.
That inspection ended with 1 citation item: 1 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $12,145 and still stand at $12,145.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $2,408, and Aps Stevedoring, LLC averages $12,145 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Aps Stevedoring, LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Georgia · latest 90 days of OSHA records
136employers cited
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Incident on Nov 17, 2019 (fatal): Employee drowns in river
At 3:30 a.m. on November 17, 2019, Employee#1 was driving vehicles from the International Auto Processing Zone 5 storage area at the Port of Brunswick onto the Apollon Highway vessel at Berth 1 (Colonel's Island Terminal) for shipment. Vehicles were moving one-by-one and turning right to drive onto the vessel. The employee was driving a Mercedes GLE 300D SUV, with the steering wheel on the right side of the vehicle. As the vehicles in front of the employee's vehicle were turning right to drive onto the vessel, the employee accelerated straight forward instead of making the right turn towards the entry ramp of the vessel. Employee #1 crashed through the pedestrian guardrails off the edge of Berth 1 and went into the South Brunswick River, and drowned. and drowned.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Brunswick site logged 15 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 325 workers: 12.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.2 for its industry. Those cases cost 421 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Brunswick GA
Brunswick · 2025
325
15
4
12.7
3.2
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(a) Working and walking areas shall be illuminated. Unless conditions described in the regulations of the United States Coast Guard (33 CFR 126.15(1) and (n), and 33 CFR 154.570) exist in the case of specific operations, illumination in active work areas (for example, cargo transfer points) shall be of an average minimum light intensity of 5 foot-candles. The illumination in other work areas (for example, farm areas) shall be of an average minimum light intensity of 1 foot-candle except for security purposes when a minimum light intensity of 1/2 foot-candle shall be maintained. Where occasional work tasks require more light than that which is consistently and permanently provided, supplemental lighting shall be used.
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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.
