OSHA has inspected Hazleton Casting Company 6 times in Pennsylvania since 2008.
The latest one began on Jan 25, 2019 as a planned inspection, in Hazleton.
Those inspections ended with 14 citation items: 5 serious and 9 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $10,282 and now stand at $7,197, 30% lower after settlements or reviews.
Injury and illness log comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1904.29.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Hazleton Casting Company averages $6,497 (1 cited inspection).
Hazleton Casting Company 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.
Pennsylvania · latest 90 days of OSHA records
295employers 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 2018, the Hazleton site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 31 workers: 6.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 5.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 215 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
HCC
Hazleton · 2018
31
2
2
6.4
5.4
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 Monday, September 19, 2016, at approximately 7:25 AM, an employee was setting up a core box at the beginning of work when he passed out and fell backwards striking his head on some metal saw horses. He sustained a head injury and was hospitalized.
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.
29 CFR 1904.29(b)(2)
(2) What do I need to do to complete the OSHA 301 Incident Report? You must complete an OSHA 301 Incident Report form, or an equivalent form, for each recordable injury or illness entered on the OSHA 300 Log.
(3) How do I record a work-related injury or illness that results in days away from work? When an injury or illness involves one or more days away from work, you must record the injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log with a check mark in the space for cases involving days away and an entry of the number of calendar days away from work in the number of days column. If the employee is out for an extended period of time, you must enter an estimate of the days that the employee will be away, and update the day count when the actual number of days is known.
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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.
