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Lowes Store #1198: OSHA inspections and violations

Woburn, Massachusetts · Hardware Stores · NAICS 444130

1inspections
1citation items
$1,423current penalties
Jan 31, 2024last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Lowes Store #1198 in Massachusetts one time.

It opened on Jan 31, 2024 after a complaint, in Woburn.

In all, OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 other-than-serious.

The proposed penalties came to $10,140; today they stand at $1,423, 86% less.

Among retail employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $1,750 penalty. Lowes Store #1198 averages $1,423 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Lowes Store #1198: OSHA citation items per year, 2024 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347245789 OPENED JAN 31, 2024Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 180 employees at the site · Closed Jun 10, 2024

15 Commerce Way, Woburn, MA 01801 · Hardware Stores · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.141(a)(5) · Sanitation
Other-than-serious$10,140$1,423Apr 30, 2024Final

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.

May 25, 2025, Woburn: Hospitalization · fractures · trunk and other upper extremities

An employee was walking through the parking lot, returning from lunch. The employee was walking under the lumber canopy when they tripped over a flat cart and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured humerus and five fractured ribs.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.141(a)(5)

(5) Vermin control. Every enclosed workplace shall be so constructed, equipped, and maintained, so far as reasonably practicable, as to prevent the entrance or harborage of rodents, insects, and other vermin. A continuing and effective extermination program shall be instituted where their presence is detected.

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