Woodridge, Illinois · Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing · NAICS 325611
1inspections
6citation items
$30,000current penalties
Feb 5, 2020last inspection
Ecp Incorporated has one OSHA inspection on record in Illinois.
OSHA opened it on Feb 5, 2020 on a referral, in Woodridge.
From that inspection OSHA issued 6 citation items: 6 serious.
OSHA proposed $48,580 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $30,000, down 38%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.132, personal protective equipment, general requirements (2 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Ecp Incorporated averages $30,000 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
Ecp Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 1 case on it since 2015, with $0 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Jan 28, 2020: Three employees are burned in flammable chemical explosion
At 1:30 p.m. on January 28, 2020, Employee #1, a temporary employee, was working on a high speed production line and was filling 12 ounce bottles with a car windshield cleaning product, TBS-C15A, a flammable liquid from a 55 gallon drum. The employee was using a motorized pump with a hose to transfer the product to the bottles when he began to have difficulty with pumping out the remainder of the product at the bottom of the drum due to the hose being too short. The employee manually picked up the 55 gallon drum and attempted to dump the excess product into another 55 gallon drum designated to collect excess product. While the employee was transferring the excess, an explosion occurred. The employee was treated at the hospital and released the same day for 2nd degree burns to his hands. Employee #2 was working inside the packaging area and was hospitalized to treat 2nd degree burns to her arms, hands, and face. Employee #3, a temporary employee, was affected and hospitalized to treat 2nd degree burns to her hand, arms, and face. It was determined that the drums were not grounded and that the product is only run once per month so employees have less experience with this product.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2022, the Woodridge site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 120 workers: 0.8 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
ECP-Woodridge
Woodridge · 2022
120
1
0
0.8
1.7
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.
Jan 28, 2020, Woodridge: Hospitalization · second degree heat (thermal) burns · nonclassifiable
An employee was transferring chemicals from a 55-gallon container when a flash fire occurred, causing second degree burns to the employee.
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Nov 1, 2019 to Nov 14, 2020
Woodridge
1
0
$0
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(6) Sources of ignition—(i) General. Adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent the ignition of flammable vapors. Sources of ignition include but are not limited to open flames; lightning; smoking; cutting and welding; hot surfaces; frictional heat; static, electrical, and mechanical sparks; spontaneous ignition, including heat-producing chemical reactions; and radiant heat.
29 CFR 1910.106(e)(6)(ii)
(ii) Grounding. Category 1 or 2 flammable liquids, or Category 3 flammable liquids with a flashpoint below 100 °F (37.8 °C), shall not be dispensed into containers unless the nozzle and container are electrically interconnected. Where the metallic floorplate on which the container stands while filling is electrically connected to the fill stem or where the fill stem is bonded to the container during filling operations by means of a bond wire, the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have been complied with.
(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
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.
