Midwest Scrap Management: OSHA inspections and violations
St. Joseph, Missouri · Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423930
6inspections
8citation items
$30,854current penalties
Oct 8, 2019last inspection
Midwest Scrap Management has 6 OSHA inspections on record in Missouri, the first in 1999.
OSHA's last visit started on Oct 8, 2019 on a referral, in Kansas City.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 8 citation items: 7 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $45,707 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $30,854, down 32%.
For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Midwest Scrap Management averages $10,285 over 3 cited inspections in that time.
Midwest Scrap Management 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.
Missouri · latest 90 days of OSHA records
121employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Sep 20, 2019: Employee breaks leg after fall from shredder during repairs
At 1:30 p.m. on September 20, 2019, an employee who worked for a recycling facility was working on a metal shredder when he fell to the ground. The employee broke his leg and required hosptialization.
Incident on May 30, 2017: Employee fractures pelvis when pinned between a metal pile a
At 12:15 p.m. on May 30, 2017, Employee #1 was removing a catalytic convertor from a junk truck in a metal recycling yard. An operator in the yard, using grappling jaws, dropped a load of scrap metal on a pile near the employee. The scrap metal rolled down the pile, and pinned Employee #1 between the pile and a junk truck. Employee #1 sustained a broken pelvis and was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Kansas City site logged 7 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 150 workers: 3.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.3 for its industry. Those cases cost 59 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Midwest Scrap Management, Inc.
Kansas City · 2024
150
7
1
3.8
2.3
Midwest Scrap Management, Inc. SJ
St. Joseph · 2023
9
0
0
0.0
2.3
Midwest Scrap Management KC
Kansas City · 2018
115
8
1
6.1
2.3
Midwest Scrap Management SJ
St. Joseph · 2018
22
0
0
0.0
2.3
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.
An employee was clearing the conveyor belt that fed an auto shredder. A piece of rebar stuck in the conveyor struck the employee's lower left leg, breaking it.
An employee was working on the ground in a scrap yard. A second employee operating a material handler released a bundle of scrap from the handler. The employee on the ground was struck by the bundle of scrap. He was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and tailbone.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(3) The employer shall assure that portable fire extinguishers are subjected to an annual maintenance check. Stored pressure extinguishers do not require an internal examination. The employer shall record the annual maintenance date and retain this record for one year after the last entry or the life of the shell, whichever is less. The record shall be available to the Assistant Secretary upon request.
29 CFR 1910.23 · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
(b) Rope descent systems—(1) Anchorages. (i) Before any rope descent system is used, the building owner must inform the employer, in writing that the building owner has identified, tested, certified, and maintained each anchorage so it is capable of supporting at least 5,000 pounds (2,268 kg), in any direction, for each employee attached. The information must be based on an annual inspection by a qualified person and certification of each anchorage by a qualified person, as necessary, and at least every 10 years.
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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.
