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Jonell Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Breckenridge, Texas · All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing · NAICS 333999

2inspections
9citation items
$9,483current penalties
Jun 13, 2019last inspection

Since 1989, OSHA inspectors have visited Jonell Inc. in Texas 2 times.

The most recent inspection opened on Jun 13, 2019 on a referral, in Breckenridge.

In all, OSHA issued 9 citation items: 4 serious and 5 other-than-serious.

The proposed penalties came to $16,431; today they stand at $9,483, 42% less.

The rule cited most here is 1910.1200 (hazard communication), 3 times.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Jonell Inc. averages $9,333 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Jonell Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 1989 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344082292 OPENED JUN 13, 2019Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 140 employees at the site · Closed Jan 8, 2020

900 Industrial Parkway, Breckenridge, TX 76424 · All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jun 7, 2019: Employee amputates hand in gin machine

At 12:30 p.m. on June 7, 2019, an employee was loading raw material into a cotton gin machine. on the sock line The employee opened an access panel and reached inside the gin while it was in operation and got caught in the unguarded spiked roller. The employee was hospitalized and suffered an amputation of his left hand.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
 Serious$11,934$7,160Sep 18, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.219(c)(4)(i) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Other-than-serious$4,347$2,173Sep 18, 2019Final

Inspection 106596992 OPENED AUG 10, 1989Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 20 employees at the site · Closed Oct 12, 1989

900 Industrial Parkway, Breckenridge, TX 76024 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$60$60Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$90$90Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.1200(h) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$0Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1) · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1904.2(a) · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 2, item 3
29 CFR 1910.304(f)(4) · Grounding and circuit protection
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 23, 1989Closed
Citation 2, item 4
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 23, 1989Closed

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.

Jun 7, 2019, Breckenridge: Amputation · amputations · hand(s), n.e.c.

An employee was loading raw material into the ginning machine and amputated his hand at the wrist.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1903.2 · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards

29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1)

(a)(1) Each employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices, to be furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the nearest office of the Department of Labor. Such notice or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Each employer shall take steps to insure that such notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by other material.

29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts

29 CFR 1910.304 · Grounding and circuit protection

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