Kansas City, Kansas · Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing · NAICS 334510
2inspections
3citation items
$7,714current penalties
Oct 24, 2017last inspection
OSHA has inspected Knit-Rite, Inc. 2 times in Kansas since 2011.
The latest one began on Oct 24, 2017 on a referral, in Kansas City.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $10,089 and now stand at $7,714, 24% lower after settlements or reviews.
Electrical wiring methods comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.305.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Knit-Rite, Inc. averages $5,215 (1 cited inspection).
Knit-Rite, Inc. 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 Oct 3, 2017: Employee amputates thumb while operating flat bed knitting m
At 7:30 a.m. on October 3, 2017, Employee #1 was operating a flat bed knitting machine. The employee stopped the machine to do a yarn change. His body hit the start-up bar, the carriage moved, and caused an amputation of his left thumb. Employee #1 was not hospitalized for his injury.The safety switch had been removed from the carriage cover.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Kansas City site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 126 workers: 0.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 5 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Knit-Rite LLC
Kansas City · 2024
126
1
1
0.8
1.1
Headquarters
Kansas City · 2017
78
6
1
7.7
2.4
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 changing the yarn on a flat bed knitting machine when his body hit the start-up bar, causing the carriage to quickly move and amputate his left thumb.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(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.
(A) As a substitute for the fixed wiring of a structure;
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(iii)
(iii) Flexible cords and cables shall be connected to devices and fittings so that strain relief is provided that will prevent pull from being directly transmitted to joints or terminal screws.
Other electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus manufacturing employers in Kansas
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