Florida Transformer LLC: OSHA inspections and violations
Defuniak Springs, Florida · Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing · NAICS 335311
3inspections
11citation items
$35,627current penalties
Mar 12, 2025last inspection
OSHA has inspected Florida Transformer LLC 3 times in Florida since 2016.
The latest one began on Mar 12, 2025 after a complaint, in Defuniak Springs.
Those inspections ended with 11 citation items: 5 serious and 6 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $56,946 and now stand at $35,627, 37% lower after settlements or reviews.
Bloodborne pathogens comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.1030.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Florida Transformer LLC averages $17,814 (2 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Florida Transformer LLC 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 Aug 8, 2016 (fatal): Employee is killed in explosion while welding
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on August 8, 2016, Employee #1 was using a welding type gouging rod to cut and remove the top of a sealed 3 phase transformer. Combustible gases within the transformer ignited and exploded, and Employee #1 was killed.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Defuniak Springs site logged 8 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 111 workers: 4.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 31 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Florida Facility
Defuniak Springs · 2025
111
8
2
4.8
1.4
Florida Plant
Defuniak Springs · 2024
154
8
2
3.5
1.4
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.
At 2:15 PM on April 30, 2020, an employee was unloading a bushing from a flatbed trailer. He was lifting one side of the bushing to place a lifting strap under it. As he lowered the bushing, it pinched his finger against the bushing that was beneath it, resulting in the amputation of his right index fingertip to the first knuckle.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.41 · Electronic submission of Employer Identification Number (EIN) and injury and illness records to OSHA
29 CFR 1904.41(a)(1)(i)
(a) Basic requirements—(1) Annual electronic submission of information from OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses. (i) If your establishment had 20-249 employees at any time during the previous calendar year, and your establishment is classified in an industry listed in appendix A to subpart E of this part, then you must electronically submit information from OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses to OSHA or OSHA's designee. You must submit the information once a year, no later than the date listed in paragraph (c) of this section of the year after the calendar year covered by the form.
(c) Exposure control—(1) Exposure Control Plan. (i) Each employer having an employee(s) with occupational exposure as defined by paragraph (b) of this section shall establish a written Exposure Control Plan designed to eliminate or minimize employee exposure.
29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(1)(ii)(d)
(D) Provided according to recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Service current at the time these evaluations and procedures take place, except as specified by this paragraph (f).
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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.
