Engineered Profiles has 8 OSHA inspections on record in Ohio, the first in 2012.
OSHA's last visit started on Nov 26, 2024 on a referral, in Ironton.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 7 citation items: 5 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $45,915 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $25,005, down 46%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.213, woodworking machinery (5 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Engineered Profiles averages $8,335 over 3 cited inspections in that time.
Engineered Profiles also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 5 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
275employers cited
Get notified the morning OSHA posts each new citation in Ohio: the employer, the site address, the rules broken and the penalty.
Incident on Apr 4, 2021: Employee amputates middle finger while using planer machine
At approximately 12:00 a.m. on April 4, 2021, an employee was operating a planer machine when he attempted to wipe dust from the equipment. During this process, the employee's left hand was pulled into the point of operation, resulting in the amputation of the left middle finger. The employee was treated without hospitalization.
Incident on Sep 17, 2020: Employee lacerates hand cutting scrap plastic with bandsaw
At 2:00 a.m. on September 17, 2020, an employee working as a laborer for a plastics manufacturer was cutting scrap plastic on a bandsaw. As the employee reached for more scrap to cut, he inadvertently placed his left hand into the cutting zone and contacted the blade. The employee was hospitalized to treat a laceration to the back of his left hand.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343419875 OPENED AUG 27, 2018Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 250 employees at the site · Closed Dec 28, 2018
Incident on Aug 18, 2018: Employee lacerates hand and amputates fingers while reaching
At 9:45 a.m. on August 18, 2018, an employee reached into an exit opening to remove a cut extruded plastic part from the guarding enclosure when the machine began operating. The employee sustained severe lacerations to his hand and fingers as well as amputating two fingers. The employee was hospitalized. hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Columbus site logged 7 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 247 workers: 2.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 26 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Engineered Profiles
Columbus · 2025
247
7
3
2.7
2.6
Engineered Profiles, LLC (Columbus)
Columbus · 2025
247
7
3
2.7
2.6
Engineered Profiles, Ironton
Ironton · 2025
51
0
0
0.0
2.6
Engineered Profiles LLC Ironton
Ironton · 2024
50
3
1
5.6
2.6
Engineered Profiles, llc
Columbus · 2023
431
8
3
3.2
2.6
Engineered Profiles LLC
Columbus · 2020
265
16
9
5.8
2.6
Engineered Profiles, LLC.
Columbus · 2019
298
12
3
4.0
2.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 5 reports on file.
Nov 14, 2024, Ironton: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · other finger(s) n.e.c.
An employee was cleaning his work area. He reached to move debris next to a running table saw when the saw contacted his left index finger, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was working to hang an adapter on a line in a building. They held the adapter in one hand and held a clamp in the other hand. As the employee was lifting the adapter into the cradle, the adapter slipped from the employee's hand and fell, causing their right hand to be crushed between the clamp and the adapter. The employee sustained a closed fracture of the right index finger.
On April 4, 2021, an employee was cleaning dust off a planer machine when their glove was caught in the machine, pulling in their hand and amputating the left middle finger.
An employee was cutting scrap with a vertical bandsaw when the back of the employee's hand contacted the blade and was lacerated. The employee was hospitalized.
(f) Hepatitis B vaccination and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up—(1) General. (i) The employer shall make available the hepatitis B vaccine and vaccination series to all employees who have occupational exposure, and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up to all employees who have had an exposure incident.
29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(i)
(2) Information and Training. (i) The employer shall train each employee with occupational exposure in accordance with the requirements of this section. Such training must be provided at no cost to the employee and during working hours. The employer shall institute a training program and ensure employee participation in the program.
(c) Hand-fed ripsaws. (1) Each circular hand-fed ripsaw shall be guarded by a hood which shall completely enclose that portion of the saw above the table and that portion of the saw above the material being cut. The hood and mounting shall be arranged so that the hood will automatically adjust itself to the thickness of and remain in contact with the material being cut but it shall not offer any considerable resistance to insertion of material to saw or to passage of the material being sawed. The hood shall be made of adequate strength to resist blows and strains incidental to reasonable operation, adjusting, and handling, and shall be so designed as to protect the operator from flying splinters and broken saw teeth. It shall be made of material that is soft enough so that it will be unlikely to cause tooth breakage. The hood shall be so mounted as to insure that its operation will be po
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