Industrial Machine & Engineering, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations
Brookings, South Dakota · Special Die and Tool, Die Set, Jig, and Fixture Manufacturing · NAICS 333514
1inspections
3citation items
$2,837current penalties
Dec 17, 2025last inspection
OSHA has inspected Industrial Machine & Engineering, LLC once in South Dakota.
The inspection began on Dec 17, 2025 as a planned inspection, in Brookings.
That inspection ended with 3 citation items: 3 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $4,823 and now stand at $2,837, 41% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Industrial Machine & Engineering, LLC averages $2,837 (1 cited inspection).
Industrial Machine & Engineering, LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
South Dakota · latest 90 days of OSHA records
30employers 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 2025, the Brookings site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 11 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.3 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Industrial Machine & Engineering
Brookings · 2025
11
0
0
0.0
2.3
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
(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.
