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Comnet Communications, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Oshkosh, Wisconsin · Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors · NAICS 238210

1inspections
1citation items
$9,446current penalties
Nov 7, 2019last inspection

Comnet Communications, LLC has one OSHA inspection on record in Wisconsin.

OSHA opened it on Nov 7, 2019 on a referral, in Oshkosh.

From that inspection OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $13,494 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $9,446, down 30%.

For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,079. Comnet Communications, LLC averages $9,446 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Comnet Communications, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344425194 OPENED NOV 7, 2019Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Jul 8, 2020

2541 W. 20th Ave., Oshkosh, WI 54904 · Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Oct 28, 2019: Employee sustains multiple injuries when aerial lift tips ov

At 10:25 a.m. on October 28, 2019, an employee was installing a sign for a communications cable while on an elevated JLG aerial work platform in a truck parking dock. A coworker used a remote control to open a door so that a tractor trailer could be pulled into the loading dock area. The door hit the aerial work platform, tipping the platform and the employee was thrown or jumped from the platform and landed on the cement floor beside the tractor trailer. The employee sustained unspecified injuries of the back, shoulder, arm, and hands. The employee was hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.268(d)(1) · Telecommunications
Serious$13,494$9,446Apr 7, 2020Final

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.

Oct 28, 2019, Oshkosh: Hospitalization · soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury · multiple body parts, n.e.c.

An employee was working from a one-person pod lift, installing network cable in a loading dock area. An overhead door struck the lift while being opened, causing the lift to tip over and the employee to fall to the floor. The employee suffered trauma to the back, shoulder, arm, and hand.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.268 · Telecommunications

29 CFR 1910.268(d)(1)

(d) Employee protection in public work areas. (1) Before work is begun in the vicinity of vehicular or pedestrian traffic which may endanger employees, warning signs and/or flags or other traffic control devices shall be placed conspicuously to alert and channel approaching traffic. Where further protection is needed, barriers shall be utilized. At night, warning lights shall be prominently displayed, and excavated areas shall be enclosed with protective barricades.

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