Masterpac Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations
St. Louis, Missouri · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · NAICS 326199
8inspections
25citation items
$18,944current penalties
Apr 1, 2015last inspection
OSHA has inspected Masterpac Corporation 8 times in Missouri since 1997.
The latest one began on Apr 1, 2015 on a referral, in Saint Louis.
Those inspections ended with 25 citation items: 19 serious and 6 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $49,569 and now stand at $18,944, 62% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 8 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Masterpac Corporation averages $7,000 (1 cited inspection).
Masterpac Corporation also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Saint Louis site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 48 workers: 8.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 16 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Masterpac Corporation
Saint Louis · 2016
48
4
1
8.8
2.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Dec 15, 2016, Saint Louis: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was setting up a die-cutter when it cycled and severely lacerated his right hand and amputated the index finger.
Mar 31, 2015, Saint Louis: Hospitalization · crushing injuries · multiple body parts, n.e.c.
An employee was trying to set up a trim die on a thermal molding machine when his left forearm, thumb, and index finger got crushed. The machine was not locked out at the time. He was hospitalized and required surgery.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(6) When do I have to post the annual summary? You must post the summary no later than February 1 of the year following the year covered by the records and keep the posting in place until April 30.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i)
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
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.
