Inspection 346240229 OPENED SEP 20, 2022Closed
8221 E 96th Ave, Unit A, Henderson, CO 80640 · Mining Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Intermountain Electronics has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Colorado, the first in 2019.
OSHA's last visit started on Sep 20, 2022 to follow up on an earlier case, in Henderson.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $8,193 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. Intermountain Electronics averages $13,494 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
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Inspection 344504923 OPENED DEC 12, 2019Closed
8221 E 96th Ave, Unit A, Henderson, CO 80640 · Mining Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Dec 10, 2019: Three fingers on worker's right hand are partially amputated
At 6:30 a.m. on December 10, 2019, an employee was working for a firm that manufactured mining machinery and equipment. He was working as a machine operator. He was operating a Bridgeport milling machine, when he reached for a rag that had been left on the work surface. The employee's right hand made contact with rotating parts of milling machine. Three fingers on his right hand; the small, ring, and middle fingers; were partially amputated. The employee was hospitalized. During the inspection, the firm's corporate HSE (health, safety, and environmental) manager, speculated that the employee had been holding the rag. The employee was possibly trying to move the rag away from the spinning milling machine parts when the rag came in contact with the spinning bit. The manager said that the only part that spins with this type of Bridgeport milling machine was the bit itself. The chuck does not rotate as with other milling machines. The company was phasing this machine out. He said that the spinning part rotated clockwise.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iv)(e) · Machine guarding |
Other-than-serious | $8,193 | $13,494 | Apr 30, 2020 | Final |
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.
Dec 10, 2019, Henderson: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was trying to remove a rag from a milling machine. The employee's right hand was pulled into the machine's rotating parts, causing the amputation of the little finger, the ring finger, and half of the middle finger.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iv)(e)
(iv) The following are some of the machines which usually require point of operation guarding:
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