OSHA has inspected Merrick Engineering 2 times in Texas since 2006.
The latest one began on Mar 26, 2019 as a planned inspection, in Waco.
Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 5 serious and 3 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $11,896 and now stand at $7,138, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
Grinders and abrasive wheels comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.215.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Merrick Engineering averages $5,113 (1 cited inspection).
Merrick Engineering also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Waco site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 170 workers: 0.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
