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Morris Pallets, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Dow, Illinois · Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing · NAICS 321920

1inspections
3citation items
$5,852current penalties
Feb 25, 2021last inspection

OSHA has inspected Morris Pallets, LLC once in Illinois.

The inspection began on Feb 25, 2021 as a planned inspection, in Dow.

That inspection ended with 3 citation items: 3 serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $5,852 and still stand at $5,852.

Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.147.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Morris Pallets, LLC averages $5,852 (1 cited inspection).

Morris Pallets, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2021 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345165971 OPENED FEB 25, 2021Closed

Planned · Partial · Safety · 4 employees at the site · Closed Jul 19, 2022

15133 Newbern Road, Dow, IL 62022 · Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$2,926$2,926Sep 13, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.147(d) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$0$0Sep 13, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$2,926$2,926Sep 13, 2021Final

The rules behind these citations

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

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 1910.147(d)

(d) Application of control. The established procedures for the application of energy control (the lockout or tagout procedures) shall cover the following elements and actions and shall be done in the following sequence:

29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts

29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3)

(3) Sprockets and chains. All sprocket wheels and chains shall be enclosed unless they are more than seven (7) feet above the floor or platform. Where the drive extends over other machine or working areas, protection against falling shall be provided. This subparagraph does not apply to manually operated sprockets.

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