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Brownmed: OSHA inspections and violations

Spirit Lake, Iowa · Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing · NAICS 339112

1inspections
2citation items
$5,455current penalties
May 7, 2019last inspection

OSHA has inspected Brownmed once in Iowa.

The inspection began on May 7, 2019 on a referral, in Spirit Lake.

That inspection ended with 2 citation items: 2 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $5,455 and still stand at $5,455.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Brownmed averages $5,455 (1 cited inspection).

Brownmed also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

Brownmed: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343989844 OPENED MAY 7, 2019Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 45 employees at the site · Closed Jul 16, 2019

1300 Lundberg Drive W, Spirit Lake, IA 51360 · Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on May 2, 2019: Employee's thumb is amputated in arbor press

At 10:15 a.m. on May 2, 2019, an employee was working for a manufacturer of medical and surgical instruments. She was placing a part in the facility's arbor press number 828. The employer had built the press. The employee cycled the arbor press while her thumb was still in the danger zone or danger area. The press head amputated her right thumb. She was not hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Other-than-serious$4,988$4,988Jun 14, 2019Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.29(b)(1) · Injury and illness log
 Other-than-serious$467$467Jun 14, 2019Final

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2025, the Spirit Lake site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 48 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
Brownmed, Inc.
Spirit Lake · 2025
48 000.01.1
Brownmed - Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake · 2022
31 5020.61.1

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1904.29 · Injury and illness log

29 CFR 1904.29(b)(1)

(b) Implementation—(1) What do I need to do to complete the OSHA 300 Log? You must enter information about your business at the top of the OSHA 300 Log, enter a one or two line description for each recordable injury or illness, and summarize this information on the OSHA 300-A at the end of the year.

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

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