Calhoun, Georgia · All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing · NAICS 311999
12inspections
19citation items
$144,228current penalties
Jun 17, 2025last inspection
Kerry Inc. has 12 OSHA inspections on record in Georgia, the first in 2007.
OSHA's last visit started on Jun 17, 2025 after a complaint, in Calhoun, and the case has not closed yet.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 19 citation items: 16 serious and 3 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $201,756 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $144,228, down 29%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.146, permit-required confined spaces (8 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,873. Kerry Inc. averages $23,127 over 6 cited inspections in that time.
Kerry Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Georgia · latest 90 days of OSHA records
136employers 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 2024, the Calhoun site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 160 workers: 1.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 1 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Kerry
Calhoun · 2024
160
2
1
1.2
3.0
Kerry Flavors
Savannah · 2021
200
6
3
3.0
4.2
Kerry, Inc
Calhoun · 2020
155
9
5
5.2
3.0
Savannah, GA.
Savannah · 2019
207
5
0
2.3
3.4
Kerry-Rome
Rome · 2019
135
4
1
2.4
3.0
Kerry-Calhoun
Calhoun · 2019
138
4
0
2.7
3.6
Kerry Calhoun
Calhoun · 2017
139
8
1
5.3
3.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
Sep 15, 2024, Rome: Amputation · amputations involving bone loss · other finger(s) n.e.c.
On September 15, 2024, an employee was clearing a piece of paper on the heat sealer in the flour bagging area when they sustained a partial amputation of their left thumb at the first knuckle.
An employee was operating the chunker when dough piled up underneath the chunker. The employee started to remove the dough when his hand got caught between the belt and the cutter on the chunker. The employee sustained an amputation to the right thumb.
(5) Transportation. (i) Chemical manufacturers, importers, or distributors shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals leaving the workplace is labeled, tagged, or marked in accordance with this section in a manner which does not conflict with the requirements of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) and regulations issued under that Act by the Department of Transportation (49 CFR subtitle B).
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii)
(ii) The label for bulk shipments of hazardous chemicals must be on the immediate container, transmitted with the shipping papers or the bills of lading, or, with the agreement of the receiving entity, transmitted by technological or electronic means so that it is immediately available to workers in printed form on the receiving end of shipment.
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.)
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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.
