OSHA has inspected Ensinger Incorporated 3 times in Delaware since 2015.
The latest one began on Jan 19, 2017 on a referral, in Greenwood.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 repeat.
Penalties were first proposed at $48,625 and now stand at $15,469, 68% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Ensinger Incorporated averages $7,734 (2 cited inspections).
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 342045028 OPENED JAN 19, 2017Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 40 employees at the site · Closed Jul 11, 2017
Church & Snider Streets, Greenwood, DE 19950 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Jan 16, 2017: Employee amputates finger when feeding hopper
At 1:15 p.m. on January 16, 2017, an employee was instructed to gather and then grind scrap sheets of nylon that had been processed via slitting and punching. The employee began feeding this scrap material into the hopper of a Rapid Model 150-35 Granulator. These scrap sheets had a degree of curling, which were of varying lengths & widths, and round plastic gaskets that were cut out of some of these sheets leaving holes in these sheets. The sheets in a pile were bird-caging and the employee's left ring finger got caught in a hole of one of these sheets. That particular sheet was pulled downward into the hopper by the action of the grinder. The employee's finger was amputated by the sheet as the downward force pulled the sheet along against an inside surface of the hopper. The employee also fracture the index finger.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 |
Serious | $45,270 | $12,675 | May 5, 2017 | Final |
Inspection 340230879 OPENED JAN 28, 2015Closed
Follow-up · Partial · Health · 51 employees at the site · Closed Jan 28, 2015
Po Box 160 Church & Snider Streets, Greenwood, DE 19950 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
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 16, 2017, Greenwood: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was picking up stacks of scrap nylon sheets and throwing them into the hopper attached to the granulator. The sheets in a pile were bird-caging and the employee's left ring finger got caught in a hole in one of these sheets. As the sheet was pulled downward into the hopper by the action of the grinder, the employee's left ring finger was amputated and the index finger was fractured and lacerated.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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