Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging: OSHA inspections and violations
Earth City, Missouri · Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing · NAICS 325412
3inspections
6citation items
$39,391current penalties
Mar 28, 2023last inspection
OSHA has inspected Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging 3 times in Missouri since 2017.
The latest one began on Mar 28, 2023 on a referral, in Earth City.
Those inspections ended with 6 citation items: 5 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $50,094 and now stand at $39,391, 21% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging averages $13,130 (3 cited inspections).
Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging 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.
Missouri · latest 90 days of OSHA records
121employers cited
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Incident on Feb 19, 2017: Employee's finger is amputated when caught in- conveyor belt
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on February 19, 2017, an employee was picking up plastic bottles fallen from conveyor belt. The employee by-passed a plexiglass guard to pick up a plastic bottle that had fallen off of the track. While placing the bottle back on to the track, the employee got the first digit of his left ring finger caught in the in-running nip point and was amputated. The employee was hospitalized and treated for his injuries. The conveyor belt and pulley belonged to the Bottle Unscrambler Machine, Model Number AU-6C and Serial Number 3656.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Earth City site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 129 workers: 1.3 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 77 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging
Earth City · 2025
129
2
2
1.3
1.4
Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging LLC
Earth City · 2024
420
6
0
1.6
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 attempting to dislodge a bottle from the bottling scrambler machine when the machine's belt amputated his ring fingertip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time.
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.
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)
(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.
29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
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