Cox Engineering Company: OSHA inspections and violations
Boston, Massachusetts · Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing · NAICS 333415
78inspections
98citation items
$28,280current penalties
Apr 2, 2024last inspection
OSHA has inspected Cox Engineering Company 78 times in Massachusetts since 1973.
The latest one began on Apr 2, 2024 after a complaint, in Randolph.
Those inspections ended with 98 citation items: 26 serious, 6 repeat and 66 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $77,522 and now stand at $28,280, 64% lower after settlements or reviews.
Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart comes up most often in these citations: 12 items under 1926.500.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Cox Engineering Company averages $13,500 (1 cited inspection).
Cox Engineering Company also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Complaint · Partial · Health · 70 employees at the site · Closed Sep 17, 2024
21 Pacella Park Drive, Randolph, MA 02368 · Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 346642291 OPENED APR 19, 2023Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 451 employees at the site · Closed May 9, 2024
Incident on Dec 8, 2021: Employee amputates fingertip in rotating die
At 7:45 a.m. on December 8, 2021, an employee was operating a power rotary machine putting an edge on metal round when his glove got caught in the rotating die. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation and was treated without hospitalization.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343875308 OPENED MAR 21, 2019Closed
Planned · Complete · Safety · 65 employees at the site · Closed Oct 17, 2019
4 Carleton Drive, Georgetown, MA 01833 · Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343671756 OPENED DEC 19, 2018Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 62 employees at the site · Closed Dec 13, 2019
4 Carleton Drive, Georgetown, MA 01833 · Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Randolph site logged 11 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 353 workers: 3.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.8 for its industry. Those cases cost 197 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Cox Engineering - Randolph
Randolph · 2025
353
11
4
3.1
1.8
Cambridgeport
Georgetown · 2025
75
1
0
1.3
1.8
Cox Engineering Company
Randolph · 2016
232
9
1
4.2
1.8
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.
An employee was conducting HVAC work when a valve released from the system and contacted their left hand. The valve punctured their left hand at the center of the palm and filled their left hand and arm with nitrogen.
Dec 8, 2021, Randolph: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was operating a power rotary machine. The employee's glove was pulled into the die, which caused an amputation to the employee's fingertip.
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
(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.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
(ii) In addition, the employer must establish and implement those elements of a written respiratory protection program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily is medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator is cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user. Exception: Employers are not required to include in a written respiratory protection program those employees whose only use of respirators involves the voluntary use of filtering facepieces (dust masks).
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.