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Halpern Titanium, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Three Rivers, Massachusetts · Metal Kitchen Cookware, Utensil, Cutlery, and Flatware (except Precious) Manufacturing · NAICS 332215

1inspections
3citation items
$5,070current penalties
May 26, 2017last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Halpern Titanium, Inc. in Massachusetts one time.

It opened on May 26, 2017 on a referral, in Three Rivers.

In all, OSHA issued 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

The proposed penalties came to $13,762; today they stand at $5,070, 63% less.

The rule cited most here is 1910.212 (machine guarding), 2 times.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Halpern Titanium, Inc. averages $5,070 across 1 cited inspection.

Halpern Titanium, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2017
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 342355641 OPENED MAY 26, 2017Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 13 employees at the site · Closed Dec 26, 2017

4 Springfield Street, Three Rivers, MA 01080 · Metal Kitchen Cookware, Utensil, Cutlery, and Flatware (except Precious) Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on May 26, 2017: Employee's finger tip is amputated by a pneumatic press

On May 26, 2017, an employee was bending clips using a pneumatic press bending die. The employee placed a finger into a pinch-point while the machine was cycling, and the employee's fingertip was amputated.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$5,070$5,070Sep 8, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$5,070$0Sep 8, 2017Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
 Other-than-serious$3,622$0Sep 8, 2017Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2)

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii)

(iii) Special handtools for placing and removing material shall be such as to permit easy handling of material without the operator placing a hand in the danger zone. Such tools shall not be in lieu of other guarding required by this section, but can only be used to supplement protection provided.

Other metal kitchen cookware, utensil, cutlery, and flatware (except precious) manufacturing employers in Massachusetts

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