Esterline Defense Technologies: OSHA inspections and violations
East Camden, Arkansas · All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing · NAICS 325998
2inspections
5citation items
$32,068current penalties
Jun 29, 2016last inspection
Since 2016, OSHA inspectors have visited Esterline Defense Technologies in Arkansas 2 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jun 29, 2016 as part of a related case, in East Camden.
In all, OSHA issued 5 citation items: 5 serious.
The proposed penalties came to $42,758; today they stand at $32,068, 25% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.119 (process safety management), 3 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $4,500 penalty. Esterline Defense Technologies averages $16,034 across 2 cited inspections.
Esterline Defense Technologies 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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Referral · Partial · Health · 268 employees at the site · Closed Aug 11, 2017
Highland Industrial Park P.o. Box 3297, East Camden, AR 71701 · All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2018, the East Camden site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 300 workers: 1.3 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 44 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
EDT Armtech Countermeasures ARO
East Camden · 2018
300
4
1
1.3
1.6
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.
Dec 18, 2018, East Camden: Hospitalization · fractures · leg(s), unspecified
An employee was operating a tooling center machine behind a barricade inside of a building when an explosion of unknown source occurred. The explosion blew the front of the barricade inward, forcing the employee backward and pinning him to the floor. The employee sustained multiple traumas and both legs were broken.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(v) Emergency relief venting for fire exposure for aboveground tanks. (a) Every aboveground storage tank shall have some form of construction or device that will relieve excessive internal pressure caused by exposure fires.
(ii) The employer shall document that equipment complies with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices.
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(5)
(5) Equipment deficiencies. The employer shall correct deficiencies in equipment that are outside acceptable limits (defined by the process safety information in paragraph (d) of this section) before further use or in a safe and timely manner when necessary means are taken to assure safe operation.
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.
