Since 1981, OSHA inspectors have visited Donsco, Inc. in Pennsylvania 32 times.
The most recent inspection opened on May 7, 2026 after a complaint, in Wrightsville and is still open.
In all, OSHA issued 136 citation items: 97 serious, 2 repeat and 37 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $391,001; today they stand at $233,910, 40% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.147 (lockout/tagout), 13 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Donsco, Inc. averages $18,089 across 8 cited inspections.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Donsco, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 6 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 342860244 OPENED JAN 4, 2018Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 150 employees at the site · Closed Jun 14, 2018
124 North Front Street, Wrightsville, PA 17368 · Iron Foundries · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Jan 2, 2018: Employee sustains fractures when struck by forklift
At 1:00 p.m. on January 2, 2018, an employee was working as a coremaker at an iron foundry. She worked in the sites main building core room as well as in a small building located behind (to the east of) the main building. To get from one building to the other, workers at the site went outside and walked across a paved outdoor drive that ran between the two buildings. At the time of the incident, the employee exited a personnel door in the main building and started walking eastward across the drive to get to a personnel door in the small building. The personnel door on the small building was on the small building's west side. During each production work shift, two sit-down-rider powered industrial trucks (PITs) operated continuously throughout the facility. These forklifts ran to move materials between foundry areas. Their range included the drive between the two buildings. As the employee was walking between the two buildings, a coworker was operating a sit-down rider powered industrial truck. He was picking up two empty containers in an outdoor empty container storage area located next to (north of) the small building behind the main building. The coworker, facing eastward, picked up the empty containers. He then backed up the PIT, moving first west and then south, in the drive between the two buildings. He did this so that he could get to a pull cord hanging at a corner bump out on the east side of the main building. This pull cord operated an overhead door a little north of the personnel door on the main building's east side. The personnel door was the same door that the employee had just exited. The coworker planned to open the overhead door in order to take the empty containers into the main building. The coworkers truck struck employee and then ran over her left foot. The employee sustained a fractured right hip and fractures, lacerations, and other crushing injuries to her left foot. She was hospitalized for two or more days. The PIT operator said that, before he started moving in reverse, he looked rearward in both directions and sounded the powered industrial truck's horn. He said that, while he was operating in reverse, he looked continuously rearward over his left shoulder. The coworker said that he did not see the employee. There were no other witnesses to the incident. no other witnesses to the incident.
No citations from this inspection.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Wrightsville site logged 28 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 162 workers: 28.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 5.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 285 days away from work.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 6 reports on file.
Jan 20, 2025, Wrightsville: Hospitalization · fractures · lower leg(s)
An employee climbed onto the shaker car (shakeout system for castings) to travel from the shaker to the control deck. The shaker was activated and the employee's lower left leg was caught between the car and the shaker. The employee sustained fractures to their tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.
Nov 2, 2022, Mount Joy: Hospitalization · traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified · nonclassifiable
An employee was trying to retrieve pouring instructions from a mold. She was pinned between the mold and the "jacket" (the mechanism that grabbed the mold).
Jan 31, 2019, Wrightsville: Hospitalization · fractures · hip(s)
An employee stood on a 2-foot square 4-inch high step to do a die change. The employee misstepped and fell to the floor, breaking the left hip. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.
Jan 2, 2018, Wrightsville: Hospitalization · fractures · hip(s) and leg(s)
An employee was entering the facility through a roll-up door when a forklift driver reversed and ran over the employee. The employee suffered a broken right hip and left foot.
Oct 30, 2017, Wrightsville: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
At 6:00 PM, an employee was doing his normal set-up duties. To check for sand, he reached into the top of the magazine and the clamp came down on his finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.
Jul 13, 2016, Wrightsville: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee amputated the tip of their right index finger and their middle finger when they were caught between a casting and a machine apron while trying to remove the casting from the machine.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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