OSHA has inspected Custom Plastics, Inc. 9 times in Illinois since 1994.
The latest one began on Sep 26, 2016 on a referral, in Elk Grove Village.
Those inspections ended with 57 citation items: 50 serious and 7 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $202,541 and now stand at $103,336, 49% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 8 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Custom Plastics, Inc. averages $7,904 (2 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Custom Plastics, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 309672624 OPENED JAN 10, 2006Closed
Accident · Partial · Safety · 220 employees at the site · Closed Sep 7, 2010
1940 Lunt Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 · Unlaminated Plastics Profile Shape Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Jan 10, 2006 (fatal): Employee is killed when homemade manbasket falls
At approximately 5:25 p.m. on January 10, 2006, Employee #1 was working in plant maintenance for Custom Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic items. He was repairing a ballast on a fluorescent light fixture from a homemade, wooden manba sket placed on the forks of a liquified petroleum gas-powered Nissan Model Numbe r CPF02A25V industrial truck. He was at a height of approximately 12 feet. He re portedly leaned to one side, causing the basket to fall off the forks. He fell h eadfirst onto the concrete floor below, and then the wooden basket fell from the forks and landed on top of him. He was killed. The nature of his injuries is no t specified. The plant molding superintendent and plant maintenance supervisor w ere present in the area when Employee #1 fell. The bottom support of the basket was missing or got broken off when the basket fell. Employee #1 had performed th is job before. He had been on vacation for two weeks, and the light was out for over one and a half weeks. When Employee #1 returned, his supervisor asked him t o repair the light. The company has a working manlift that was being charged at time of the accident. A causal factor is that Employee #1 did not speak English well.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 |
Serious | $5,600 | $7,000 | Jul 6, 2006 | Final |
| Citation 1, item 2 |
Serious | $5,600 | $7,000 | Jul 6, 2006 | Final |
| Citation 1, item 6 |
Serious | $5,600 | $7,000 | Jul 6, 2006 | Final |
| Citation 1, item 8 |
Serious | $7,000 | $7,000 | Jul 6, 2006 | Final |
| Citation 2, item 1 |
Serious | $63,000 | $7,000 | Jul 6, 2006 | Final |
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Elk Grove Village site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 170 workers: 3.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 87 days away from work.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Sep 22, 2016, Elk Grove Village: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was picking plastic parts off a machine. When he attempted to dislodge a part that was caught in the machine, the machine blade amputated his left middle finger and lacerated his left index and ring fingers. The guard was in place at the time.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
