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Cargill Meat Solution: OSHA inspections and violations

Dodge City, Kansas · Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering · NAICS 311611

1inspections
2citation items
$21,729current penalties
Jan 18, 2017last inspection

Cargill Meat Solution has one OSHA inspection on record in Kansas.

OSHA opened it on Jan 18, 2017 on a referral, in Dodge City.

From that inspection OSHA issued 2 citation items: 2 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $21,729 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,874. Cargill Meat Solution averages $21,729 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.

Cargill Meat Solution: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2017
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 342037595 OPENED JAN 18, 2017Closed

Referral · Complete · Safety · 2,498 employees at the site · Closed Jul 13, 2017

3201 E. Highway 400, Dodge City, KS 67801 · Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jan 6, 2017: Employee's right index finger is amputated in chine bone saw

At 5:15 p.m. on January 6, 2017 an employee was sawing meat using a chine bone saw. The employee's right index finger was amputated when it was caught in the saw blade of the chine saw.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.36(g)(2) · Exit route design
 Other-than-serious$9,054$9,054Mar 16, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii) · Machine guarding
 Other-than-serious$12,675$12,675Mar 16, 2017Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.

Jun 14, 2017, Dodge City: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was hand scrubbing a stainless steel hinged folding product chute when the chute closed on the employee's left pinky finger, fracturing it and amputating the fingertip.

Jan 6, 2017, Dodge City: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was working on a saw when his right index finger came in contact with the saw blade resulting in a fingertip amputation.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii)

(iii) Special handtools for placing and removing material shall be such as to permit easy handling of material without the operator placing a hand in the danger zone. Such tools shall not be in lieu of other guarding required by this section, but can only be used to supplement protection provided.

29 CFR 1910.36 · Exit route design

29 CFR 1910.36(g)(2)

(2) An exit access must be at least 28 inches (71.1 cm) wide at all points. Where there is only one exit access leading to an exit or exit discharge, the width of the exit and exit discharge must be at least equal to the width of the exit access.

Other animal (except poultry) slaughtering employers in Kansas

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