Storm Lake, Iowa · Other Animal Food Manufacturing · NAICS 311119
4inspections
11citation items
$6,750current penalties
Dec 13, 2017last inspection
OSHA has inspected Furst-McNess Co. 4 times in Iowa since 1984.
The latest one began on Dec 13, 2017 after a complaint, in Storm Lake.
Those inspections ended with 11 citation items: 6 serious and 5 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $9,125 and now stand at $6,750, 26% lower after settlements or reviews.
Portable fire extinguishers comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.157.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,873, and Furst-McNess Co. averages $6,500 (1 cited inspection).
Furst-McNess Co. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Iowa · latest 90 days of OSHA records
64employers cited
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Storm Lake site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 26 workers: 13.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 16 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Furst-McNess Company (Storm Lake)
Storm Lake · 2025
26
4
2
13.5
2.6
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(i) An employer may provide respirators at the request of employees or permit employees to use their own respirators, if the employer determines that such respirator use will not in itself create a hazard. If the employer determines that any voluntary respirator use is permissible, the employer shall provide the respirator users with the information contained in appendix D to this section (“Information for Employees Using Respirators When Not Required Under the Standard”); and
(3) The employer shall assure that portable fire extinguishers are subjected to an annual maintenance check. Stored pressure extinguishers do not require an internal examination. The employer shall record the annual maintenance date and retain this record for one year after the last entry or the life of the shell, whichever is less. The record shall be available to the Assistant Secretary upon request.
29 CFR 1910.157(f)(2)
(2) The employer shall assure that portable extinguishers are hydrostatically tested at the intervals listed in Table L-1 of this section, except under any of the following conditions:
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
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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.
