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Melet Plastics: OSHA inspections and violations

Fargo, North Dakota · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · NAICS 326199

2inspections
1citation items
$1,811current penalties
Nov 17, 2021last inspection

Melet Plastics has 2 OSHA inspections on record in North Dakota, the first in 2017.

OSHA's last visit started on Nov 17, 2021 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Fargo.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $3,622 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $1,811, down 50%.

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Melet Plastics averages $1,811 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Melet Plastics: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345664072 OPENED NOV 17, 2021Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Health · 100 employees at the site · Closed Jan 31, 2022

401 27th Street N, Fargo, ND 58102 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Nov 17, 2021 (fatal): Two employees, one who is pregnant, are killed after being s

At 3:00 p.m. on November 17, 2021, Coworker #1 (Human Resources) had fired a Coworker #2 earlier in the day when he returned with a handgun. Coworker #2 shot and killed Employee #1 and Employee #2 who was carrying an unborn child of 36 weeks gestation.

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 342112679 OPENED FEB 16, 2017Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 14 employees at the site · Closed Apr 11, 2017

401 27th Street North, Fargo, ND 58102 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$3,622$1,811Mar 27, 2017Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

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