Brittain Machine Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Wichita, Kansas · Special Die and Tool, Die Set, Jig, and Fixture Manufacturing · NAICS 333514
10inspections
23citation items
$24,383current penalties
Aug 30, 2016last inspection
OSHA has inspected Brittain Machine Inc. 10 times in Kansas since 1975.
The latest one began on Aug 30, 2016 on a referral, in Wichita.
Those inspections ended with 23 citation items: 12 serious and 11 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $36,008 and now stand at $24,383, 32% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 6 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Brittain Machine Inc. averages $8,980 (1 cited inspection).
Brittain Machine 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.
Kansas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
43employers 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 2019, the Wichita site logged 5 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 48 workers: 10.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 7 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Brittain Machine Inc
Wichita · 2019
48
5
1
10.5
1.1
PCC Aerostructures
Wichita · 2017
179
13
6
6.7
1.1
Brittain Machine, Inc.
Wichita · 2016
165
25
7
13.5
1.1
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An employee was removing a flattening plate from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). He positioned himself on the CMM table about 38 inches off the floor and was attaching a hoist chain for a forklift boom attachment when the 2-inch probe shaft impaled his body, requiring surgical removal.
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.
(6) The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in appendix D of this section, shall be provided by the employer in any written or oral format, to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer.
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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.
