OSHA has inspected Gemtech LLC 2 times in Kansas since 2015.
The latest one began on Jun 15, 2022 on a referral, in Olathe.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $6,451 and now stand at $5,821, 10% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Gemtech LLC averages $2,910 (2 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Gemtech LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Inspection 346020860 OPENED JUN 15, 2022Closed
Referral · Partial · Health · 47 employees at the site · Closed Nov 8, 2022
15665 S. Keeler St, Olathe, KS 66062 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Jun 14, 2022 (fatal): Employee suffers heart attack and dies
At 7:08 p.m. on June 14, 2022, an employee was performing extrusion work at a plastics manufacturing facility when she suffered a heart attack and died.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 |
Serious | $4,351 | $4,351 | Oct 13, 2022 | Final |
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2022, the Olathe site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 51 workers: 2.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 2 days away from work.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
