New Carlisle, Ohio · Light Truck and Utility Vehicle Manufacturing · NAICS 336112
2inspections
5citation items
$12,420current penalties
Nov 2, 2017last inspection
OSHA has inspected Fabmetals,Inc 2 times in Ohio since 2013.
The latest one began on Nov 2, 2017 on a referral, in New Carlisle.
Those inspections ended with 5 citation items: 5 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $15,570 and now stand at $12,420, 20% 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 $3,600, and Fabmetals,Inc averages $5,070 (1 cited inspection).
Fabmetals,Inc 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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Incident on Oct 27, 2017: Employee is operating press brake and amputates several fing
At 4:00 p.m. on October 27, 2017, an employee was feeding metal material into an unguarded press brake. The employee amputated several fingers when the ram came down and caught the employee's fingers. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the New Carlisle site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 26 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Fabmetals Inc
New Carlisle · 2024
26
0
0
0.0
3.6
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.
Oct 27, 2017, New Carlisle: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
While operating a brake press, an employee's right hand was caught in the press and three fingers were amputated.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.
29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.303(g)(2)(i)
(2) Guarding of live parts. (i) Except as elsewhere required or permitted by this standard, live parts of electric equipment operating at 50 volts or more shall be guarded against accidental contact by use of approved cabinets or other forms of approved enclosures or by any of the following means:
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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.
