Since 2013, OSHA inspectors have visited Lok-Mor, Inc. in Texas 3 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jan 21, 2025 as a planned inspection, in Mansfield.
In all, OSHA issued 4 citation items: 3 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $9,165; today they stand at $5,520, 40% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.215 (grinders and abrasive wheels), 2 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Lok-Mor, Inc. averages $3,000 across 1 cited inspection.
Lok-Mor, 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.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
391employers 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 Mansfield site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 70 workers: 7.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 23 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Lok-Mor, Inc.
Mansfield · 2024
70
4
3
7.5
2.7
Lok-Mor
Mansfield · 2023
66
1
1
2.0
2.7
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.
Jul 10, 2024, Mansfield: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
On July 10, 2024, an employee was working at a press. When he reached for a part, the foot pedal was actuated and the press came down, resulting in a right index fingertip amputation and fracture.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(a) Basic requirement. You must record on the OSHA 300 Log the recordable injuries and illnesses of all employees on your payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly, salary, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers. You also must record the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on your payroll if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. If your business is organized as a sole proprietorship or partnership, the owner or partners are not considered employees for recordkeeping purposes.
(4) Work rests. On offhand grinding machines, work rests shall be used to support the work. They shall be of rigid construction and designed to be adjustable to compensate for wheel wear. Work rests shall be kept adjusted closely to the wheel with a maximum opening of one-eighth inch to prevent the work from being jammed between the wheel and the rest, which may cause wheel breakage. The work rest shall be securely clamped after each adjustment. The adjustment shall not be made with the wheel in motion.
29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9)
(9) Exposure adjustment. Safety guards of the types described in subparagraphs (3) and (4) of this paragraph, where the operator stands in front of the opening, shall be constructed so that the peripheral protecting member can be adjusted to the constantly decreasing diameter of the wheel. The maximum angular exposure above the horizontal plane of the wheel spindle as specified in paragraphs (b) (3) and (4) of this section shall never be exceeded, and the distance between the wheel periphery and the adjustable tongue or the end of the peripheral member at the top shall never exceed one-fourth inch. (See Figures O-18, O-19, O-20, O-21, O-22, and O-23.)
29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements
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