Euclid, Ohio · All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing · NAICS 332999
8inspections
9citation items
$14,975current penalties
Mar 31, 2025last inspection
OSHA has inspected Hose Master LLC 8 times in Ohio since 1997.
The latest one began on Mar 31, 2025 after a complaint, in Euclid.
Those inspections ended with 9 citation items: 7 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $22,825 and now stand at $14,975, 34% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Hose Master LLC averages $4,292 (3 cited inspections).
Hose Master LLC 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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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Euclid site logged 12 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 406 workers: 2.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 207 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Hose Master - Cleveland Plant
Euclid · 2025
406
12
8
2.9
2.4
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.
An employee was operating a corrugator when a piece of metal lacerated the employee's arm as it moved forward during the manufacturing process. The employee required surgery.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2)
(2) The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.
(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.
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.
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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.