OSHA has inspected Engines, Inc. 17 times in West Virginia since 1989.
The latest one began on May 11, 2023 as a planned inspection, in Milton.
Those inspections ended with 73 citation items: 43 serious and 30 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $62,986 and now stand at $50,516, 20% lower after settlements or reviews.
Mechanical power presses comes up most often in these citations: 8 items under 1910.217.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Engines, Inc. averages $6,936 (4 cited inspections).
Engines, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 345510929 OPENED SEP 2, 2021Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 11 employees at the site · Closed Sep 30, 2021
4025 Kyle Lane, Huntington, WV 25705 · Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Aug 27, 2021: Employee amputates finger pad when pulling steel bar from pr
At 8:15 a.m. on August 27,2021, an employee working for a railroad rolling stock manufacturer was straitening a flat bar in a gag press. The employee was pulling the 2-inch-thick by 6-inch-wide by 40-feet-long steel bar from the press when he caught his left-hand pinky between the bar and a non-motorized conveyor roller. The employee amputated the skin off his finger pad. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization at a local occupational health clinic.
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 2019, the Huntington site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 23 workers: 9.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.3 for its industry. Those cases cost 2 days away from work.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Aug 27, 2021, Huntington: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was lifting a steel flat bar onto rollers to straighten it. The employee's left ring finger was caught between a roller and the bar, causing an amputation to the fingertip.
Mar 6, 2016, Milton: Hospitalization · fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. · multiple trunk locations
An employee was operating a boring mill and measuring a hole that was to be drilled in a cross beam when their sleeve was caught in the drill bit. The force from the boring machine caused the employee to flip over and land on the ground, suffering cracked right ribs, a collapsed right lung, right kidney bleeding, and a rash burn to the arms and neck.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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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.
