MBW, Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations
Orange, Massachusetts · All Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing · NAICS 322299
7inspections
18citation items
$8,375current penalties
Sep 4, 2024last inspection
Since 2002, OSHA inspectors have visited MBW, Incorporated in Massachusetts 7 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Sep 4, 2024 after a complaint, in Orange.
In all, OSHA issued 18 citation items: 11 serious and 7 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $14,900; today they stand at $8,375, 44% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.212 (machine guarding), 4 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $4,500 penalty. MBW, Incorporated averages $1,250 across 2 cited inspections.
MBW, Incorporated 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.
Massachusetts · latest 90 days of OSHA records
242employers 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 2025, the Orange site logged 6 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 189 workers: 3.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 26 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
MBW Incorporated
Orange · 2025
189
6
4
3.4
2.1
MBW
Orange · 2021
180
12
9
9.5
2.1
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Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Feb 27, 2015, Orange: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee had the left index fingertip amputated while trying to clear a jam from the tissue paper convertor machine on February 27, 2015, at 2:00 pm.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(3) How quickly must each injury or illness be recorded? You must enter each recordable injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log and 301 Incident Report within seven (7) calendar days of receiving information that a recordable injury or illness has occurred.
(ii) The employer shall certify that the periodic inspections have been performed. The certification shall identify the machine or equipment on which the energy control procedure was being utilized, the date of the inspection, the employees included in the inspection, and the person performing the inspection.
29 CFR 1910.147(e)(3)
(3) Lockout or tagout devices removal. Each lockout or tagout device shall be removed from each energy isolating device by the employee who applied the device. Exception to paragraph (e)(3): When the authorized employee who applied the lockout or tagout device is not available to remove it, that device may be removed under the direction of the employer, provided that specific procedures and training for such removal have been developed, documented and incorporated into the employer's energy control program. The employer shall demonstrate that the specific procedure provides equivalent safety to the removal of the device by the authorized employee who applied it. The specific procedure shall include at least the following elements:
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
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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.