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MCF Operating, LLC.: OSHA inspections and violations

Ankeny, Iowa · All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing · NAICS 311999

2inspections
3citation items
$16,312current penalties
Oct 21, 2024last inspection

OSHA has inspected MCF Operating, LLC. 2 times in Iowa since 2024.

The latest one began on Oct 21, 2024 on a referral, in Ankeny.

Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $18,242 and now stand at $16,312, 11% lower after settlements or reviews.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,872, and MCF Operating, LLC. averages $8,156 (2 cited inspections).

MCF Operating, LLC. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

MCF Operating, LLC.: OSHA citation items per year, 2024 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347834897 OPENED OCT 21, 2024Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 135 employees at the site · Closed Dec 31, 2024

740 Se Dalbey Drive, Ankeny, IA 50021 · All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.30(b)(1) · Training requirements
Serious$8,372$8,372Dec 13, 2024Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
Other-than-serious$940$940Dec 13, 2024Final

Inspection 347430126 OPENED APR 19, 2024Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 138 employees at the site · Closed Oct 8, 2024

740 Se Dalbey Drive, Ankeny, IA 50021 · All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$8,930$7,000Aug 2, 2024Final

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2022, the Ankeny site logged 14 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 138 workers: 12.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 31 days away from work.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
MCF Operating LLC
Ankeny · 2022
138 14412.63.0

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2)

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(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 1910.30 · Training requirements

29 CFR 1910.30(b)(1)

(b) Equipment hazards. (1) The employer must train each employee on or before May 17, 2017 in the proper care, inspection, storage, and use of equipment covered by this subpart before an employee uses the equipment.

Other all other miscellaneous food manufacturing employers in Iowa

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.