Niles, Ohio · Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing · NAICS 327212
10inspections
11citation items
$17,688current penalties
Nov 22, 2021last inspection
Since 1997, OSHA inspectors have visited GE Lighting Inc. in Ohio 10 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Nov 22, 2021 on a referral, in Bucyrus.
In all, OSHA issued 11 citation items: 10 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $29,539; today they stand at $17,688, 40% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.1025 (lead in general industry), 7 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $4,500 penalty. GE Lighting Inc. averages $4,662 across 1 cited inspection.
GE Lighting 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.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
275employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Nov 17, 2021: Employee amputates two fingers in bulb crusher
At 9:30 a.m. on November 17, 2021, an employee was retrieving a tool that was sitting on the bulb crusher machine when his right hand entered an unguarded section of the housing surrounding the moving parts and made contact with the timing belt and pulley of direct drive motor. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputation of his right middle and index fingers.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2020, the Bucyrus site logged 8 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 351 workers: 3.3 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.9 for its industry. Those cases cost 49 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
General Electric Bucyrus Lamp Plant
Bucyrus · 2020
351
8
1
3.3
1.9
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.
On November 17, 2021, an employee was verifying the operation of a bulb crusher machine that had been restarted after a jam. The machine was jogged and pulled in the employee's right-hand glove. He suffered injuries resulting in the amputation of his right index and middle fingers.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(c) Permissible exposure limit (PEL). (1) The employer shall assure that no employee is exposed to lead at concentrations greater than fifty micrograms per cubic meter of air (50 µg/m 3) averaged over an 8-hour period.
29 CFR 1910.1025(d)(4)(i)
(4) Positive initial determination and initial monitoring. (i) Where a determination conducted under paragraphs (d) (2) and (3) of this section shows the possibility of any employee exposure at or above the action level, the employer shall conduct monitoring which is representative of the exposure for each employee in the workplace who is exposed to lead.
29 CFR 1910.1025(d)(6)(iii)
(iii) If the initial monitoring reveals that employee exposure is above the permissible exposure limit the employer shall repeat monitoring quarterly. The employer shall continue monitoring at the required frequency until at least two consecutive measurements, taken at least 7 days apart, are below the PEL but at or above the action level at which time the employer shall repeat monitoring for that employee at the frequency specified in paragraph (d)(6)(ii), except as otherwise provided in paragraph (d)(7) of this section.
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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.
