OSHA has inspected Certainteed LLC 11 times in Georgia since 1982.
The latest one began on Apr 26, 2023 after a complaint, in Peachtree City.
Those inspections ended with 22 citation items: 13 serious and 9 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $36,801 and now stand at $27,787, 24% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Certainteed LLC averages $6,262 (1 cited inspection).
Certainteed LLC 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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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Athens site logged 6 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 198 workers: 2.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 41 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
CertainTeed Athens
Athens · 2025
198
6
1
2.7
2.6
Millwork & Panel LLC- Social Circle
Social Circle · 2025
54
0
0
0.0
2.6
Certainteed Corporation LLC
Athens · 2022
200
17
2
7.2
2.6
CertainTeed
Social Circle · 2017
58
0
0
0.0
2.6
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.
Mar 21, 2017, Peachtree City: Hospitalization · heat (thermal) burns, unspecified · upper and lower limb(s)
An employee was performing maintenance on a shingle manufacturing machine when his right ankle and two right-hand fingers were burned by hot asphalt.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(c) Table Z-3. An employee's exposure to any substance listed in Table Z-3, in any 8-hour work shift of a 40-hour work week, shall not exceed the 8-hour time weighted average limit given for that substance in the table.
29 CFR 1910.1000(e)
(e) To achieve compliance with paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section, administrative or engineering controls must first be determined and implemented whenever feasible. When such controls are not feasible to achieve full compliance, protective equipment or any other protective measures shall be used to keep the exposure of employees to air contaminants within the limits prescribed in this section. Any equipment and/or technical measures used for this purpose must be approved for each particular use by a competent industrial hygienist or other technically qualified person. Whenever respirators are used, their use shall comply with 1910.134.
(2) The CNP system defaults selected for test pressure shall be set at −15 mm of water (-0.58 inches of water) and the modeled inspiratory flow rate shall be 53.8 liters per minute for performing fit tests.
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.