Exide Technologies, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Lampeter, Pennsylvania · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · NAICS 326199
10inspections
20citation items
$16,029current penalties
Dec 17, 2019last inspection
OSHA has inspected Exide Technologies, Inc. 10 times in Pennsylvania since 1990.
The latest one began on Dec 17, 2019 on a referral, in Laureldale.
Those inspections ended with 20 citation items: 11 serious and 9 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $18,214 and now stand at $16,029, 12% lower after settlements or reviews.
Hazard communication comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.1200.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Exide Technologies, Inc. averages $10,814 (1 cited inspection).
Exide Technologies, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Pennsylvania · latest 90 days of OSHA records
299employers cited
5 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Dec 9, 2019: Employee amputates fingertip while trying to unclog running
At 9:00 p.m. on December 9, 2019, an employee working as a machine operator for a resins compounding facility was troubleshooting the Hot Air Pellet Dryer #1. The employee removed a 90-degree pipe elbow from a body vent on the side of the dryer airlock to see if the elbow had become blocked with plastic pellets. Upon removing the pipe elbow, the employee thought he saw a string of plastic in the airlock. The employee inserted his right pinky finger into the airlock to remove the debris. The airlock rotated catching the employee's leather glove. The employee immediately pulled his hand back but his right pinky fingertip caught-in the rotating airlock. The employee amputated his fingertip and required medical treatment without hospitalization.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the Reading site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 27 workers: 2.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Exide - Reading Recycling Facility
Reading · 2017
27
1
0
2.7
1.1
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
While maintenance employees were evaluating an actuator on top of his work box, the injured employee supplied air to see which direction controlled the valve. When the air released, the injured employee's left index fingertip was amputated by the actuator valve.
Dec 9, 2019, Laureldale: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was troubleshooting a drying problem on a pellet dryer. The employee removed the airlock hose on the bottom of the dryer and used his right pinky finger to sweep away a piece of debris. The airlock rotated and caught his leather glove. When he pulled his hand out, his right pinky fingertip was amputated.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(i) A list of the hazardous chemicals known to be present using a product identifier that is referenced on the appropriate safety data sheet (the list may be compiled for the workplace as a whole or for individual work areas); and,
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(2)(i)
(i) The requirements of this section;
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(2)(ii)
(ii) Any operations in their work area where hazardous chemicals are present; and,
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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.
