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Frontier Coop: OSHA inspections and violations

Osceola, Nebraska · Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores · NAICS 444220

1inspections
1citation items
$8,000current penalties
Aug 13, 2018last inspection

Frontier Coop has one OSHA inspection on record in Nebraska.

OSHA opened it on Aug 13, 2018 on a referral, in Osceola.

From that inspection OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $12,806 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $8,000, down 38%.

For context, across all retail employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $1,750. Frontier Coop averages $8,000 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Frontier Coop: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343388260 OPENED AUG 13, 2018Closed

Referral · Partial · Health · 160 employees at the site · Closed Feb 15, 2019

940 Central St., Osceola, NE 68651 · Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Aug 6, 2018: Employee is overcome when inhaling anhydrous ammonia from le

At 3:30 p.m. on August 6, 2018, an employee was fixing leaks on hoses that was passing anhydrous ammonia and is overcome with chest and respiratory distress. The employee was hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.132(a) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$12,806$8,000Dec 18, 2018Final

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.

Aug 6, 2018, Osceola: Hospitalization · other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect · body systems

Two employees were fixing leaking unions when an employee was struck by anhydrous ammonia that released from a pipe, suffering respiratory distress.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.132(a)

(a) Application. Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact.

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