Innovative Formulations has one OSHA inspection on record in Arkansas.
OSHA opened it on May 9, 2018 on a referral, in Harrison.
From that inspection OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.
OSHA proposed $6,467 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $3,880, down 40%.
For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Innovative Formulations averages $3,880 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
Innovative Formulations 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 7, 2018: Employee catches fingers with machine blades and fractures t
At 1:00 p.m. on May 7, 2018, an employee was removing a nylon zip tie tag that had fallen into the hopper of a granulator after it had been turned off. The employee was removing the tag from the blades with one hand and turned the machine back on with his second hand, fracturing his left hand's index and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2018, the Harrison site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 60 workers: 1.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 46 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Innovative Formulations
Harrison · 2018
60
1
1
1.8
1.1
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 dumping powdered sugar into a portable oscillating blender. A tag was dropped into the machine. The employee attempted to remove the tag and the blender pulled the employee's left hand between the metal bars and a screen, resulting in two broken fingers. The machine was running at the time.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(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.
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.
