OSHA has inspected Electrex Incorporated 6 times in Kansas since 2000.
The latest one began on May 20, 2024 on a referral, in Hutchinson.
Those inspections ended with 18 citation items: 10 serious and 8 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $30,334 and now stand at $16,870, 44% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Electrex Incorporated averages $13,689 (1 cited inspection).
Electrex Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Hutchinson site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 98 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.7 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Electrex, Inc
Hutchinson · 2024
98
0
0
0.0
2.7
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.
May 17, 2024, Hutchinson: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations involving bone loss · thumb(s)
An employee was cutting a board on a table saw and amputated his right thumb. The employee also lacerated his palm and cut his index and middle fingers.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.110 · Storage and handling of liquefied petroleum gases
29 CFR 1910.110(h)(12)
(h) Liquefied petroleum gas service stations—(1) Application. This paragraph applies to storage containers, and dispensing devices, and pertinent equipment in service stations where LP-Gas is stored and is dispensed into fuel tanks of motor vehicles. See paragraph (e) of this section for requirements covering use of LP-Gas as a motor fuel. All requirements of paragraph (b) of this section apply to this paragraph unless otherwise noted.
(5) Transportation. (i) Chemical manufacturers, importers, or distributors shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals leaving the workplace is labeled, tagged, or marked in accordance with this section in a manner which does not conflict with the requirements of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) and regulations issued under that Act by the Department of Transportation (49 CFR subtitle B).
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii)
(ii) The label for bulk shipments of hazardous chemicals must be on the immediate container, transmitted with the shipping papers or the bills of lading, or, with the agreement of the receiving entity, transmitted by technological or electronic means so that it is immediately available to workers in printed form on the receiving end of shipment.
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.
