OSHA has inspected General Cable 9 times in Arkansas since 1973.
The latest one began on Jun 6, 2018 on a referral, in Paragould.
Those inspections ended with 51 citation items: 14 serious, 3 repeat and 34 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $37,953 and now stand at $20,960, 45% lower after settlements or reviews.
Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts comes up most often in these citations: 9 items under 1910.219.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and General Cable averages $10,000 (1 cited inspection).
General Cable 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 May 21, 2018: Employee is struck by equipment and is hospitalized with mul
At 11:30 a.m. on May 21, 2018, an employee was removing the cylinders that held the pintle apparatus to a payoff when it fell backwards instead of forward, striking the employee and fractured several ribs, vertebra, and shoulder. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2020, the Paragould site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 179 workers: 1.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.9 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
General Cable
Paragould · 2020
179
2
0
1.1
2.9
General Cable Malvern
Malvern · 2017
60
1
0
2.3
2.9
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.
May 21, 2018, Paragould: Hospitalization · fractures · multiple body parts, n.e.c.
An employee was adjusting a piece of locked out pay off equipment when the arm of the equipment sprang back and struck him in the chest resulting in fractured ribs (5) and the right shoulder.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(b) Implementation—(1) What do I need to do to complete the OSHA 300 Log? You must enter information about your business at the top of the OSHA 300 Log, enter a one or two line description for each recordable injury or illness, and summarize this information on the OSHA 300-A at the end of the year.
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)
(ii) The procedures shall clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, the following:
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.
