Diversitech Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations
Leesburg, Florida · Other Concrete Product Manufacturing · NAICS 327390
3inspections
5citation items
$17,882current penalties
Oct 27, 2021last inspection
Diversitech Corporation has 3 OSHA inspections on record in Florida, the first in 2020.
OSHA's last visit started on Oct 27, 2021 after a complaint, in Leesburg.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 5 citation items: 3 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $26,198 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $17,882, down 32%.
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Diversitech Corporation averages $5,961 over 3 cited inspections in that time.
Diversitech Corporation also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Aug 10, 2020: Employee amputates fingertip in pill press machine
At 10:00 a.m. on August 10, 2020, an employee was peplacing pins and dices on a pill press machine. The employee engaged the machine without the feed frame in place when he caught his right hand pinky finger in the pinch point. The employee amputated his fingertip and required medical treatment without hospitalization.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Quincy site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 15 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.7 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Diversitech- Specialty Chemical
Quincy · 2016
15
0
0
0.0
1.7
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(j) Communication of respirable crystalline silica hazards to employees—(1) Hazard communication. The employer shall include respirable crystalline silica in the program established to comply with the hazard communication standard (HCS) (29 CFR 1910.1200). The employer shall ensure that each employee has access to labels on containers of crystalline silica and safety data sheets, and is trained in accordance with the provisions of HCS and paragraph (j)(3) of this section. The employer shall ensure that at least the following hazards are addressed: Cancer, lung effects, immune system effects, and kidney effects.
(ii) Employers shall maintain copies of any safety data sheets that are received with incoming shipments of the sealed containers of hazardous chemicals, shall obtain a safety data sheet as soon as possible for sealed containers of hazardous chemicals received without a safety data sheet if an employee requests the safety data sheet, and shall ensure that the safety data sheets are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s); and,
29 CFR 1910.145 · Specifications for accident prevention signs and tags
29 CFR 1910.145(c)(2)(ii)
(ii) All employees shall be instructed that caution signs indicate a possible hazard against which proper precaution should be taken.
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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.
