Incident on Jul 15, 2021: Employee sustains leg fractures after collision with stopped
At 9:00 a.m. on July 15, 2021, Employee #1, a Janitor, was operating a stand-up power pallet jack in aisle CB with a load behind him. A coworker, a Forklift Operator, was stopped at a cut-through from aisle CA to CB with forklift forks in the aisle. Employee #1 struck the coworker's stopped forklift, resulting in fractures to Employee 1's right lower leg and contusions to the left leg. The employee was hospitalized.
29 CFR 1904.2(a) · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
Other-than-serious
$450
$450
Jun 20, 1991
Closed
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 Fitchburg site logged 17 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 323 workers: 5.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 99 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Certco Inc
Fitchburg · 2025
323
17
8
5.2
4.6
Certco Inc Verona Road
Fitchburg · 2022
500
7
2
2.0
4.6
Certco Inc Femrite
Madison · 2022
247
14
5
8.6
4.6
Certco, inc. Daniels Street
Madison · 2022
122
5
0
6.4
4.6
Verona
Madison · 2021
308
23
8
6.9
4.6
Femrite
Madison · 2021
136
19
7
13.2
4.6
Daniels
Madison · 2021
74
6
3
8.0
4.6
Location #1
Fitchburg · 2018
298
16
8
5.2
4.6
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.
Oct 3, 2025, Fitchburg: Hospitalization · fractures · hip joint(s)
At 7:40 a.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was unloading a bulkhead at a dock door. As he pulled the bulkhead out of a trailer, its plastic lip caught on the dock plate, causing the employee to fall and twist his left leg, knee, and hip. The hip was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
On 7/15/2021 at 9:00 a.m., an employee was traveling down a warehouse aisle on an electric pallet jack when a forklift struck the pallet jack at an aisle intersection. The employee was pinned to the pallet jack by the palletized materials on the forklift, resulting in leg fractures that required surgery.
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Aug 19, 2020 to Oct 2, 2020
Madison
2
0
$0
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
(2) Information pertaining to the technology of the process. (i) Information concerning the technology of the process shall include at least the following:
29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)
(3) Information pertaining to the equipment in the process. (i) Information pertaining to the equipment in the process shall include:
29 CFR 1910.119(e)(1)
(e) Process hazard analysis. (1) The employer shall perform an initial process hazard analysis (hazard evaluation) on processes covered by this standard. The process hazard analysis shall be appropriate to the complexity of the process and shall identify, evaluate, and control the hazards involved in the process. Employers shall determine and document the priority order for conducting process hazard analyses based on a rationale which includes such considerations as extent of the process hazards, number of potentially affected employees, age of the process, and operating history of the process. The process hazard analysis shall be conducted as soon as possible, but not later than the following schedule:
29 CFR 1910.120 · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
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