OSHA has inspected Mountain View Co-OP 4 times in Montana since 2010.
The latest one began on May 6, 2020 on a referral, in Great Falls.
Those inspections ended with 18 citation items: 16 serious, 1 repeat and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $58,599 and now stand at $29,838, 49% lower after settlements or reviews.
Grain handling facilities comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.272.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,873, and Mountain View Co-OP averages $6,638 (1 cited inspection).
Mountain View Co-OP also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Montana · latest 90 days of OSHA records
29employers cited
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Incident on May 4, 2020: Employee's finger is amputated in fertilizer bagger machine
At 4:00 p.m. on May 4, 2020, an employee was cleaning equipment. The fertilizer bagger machine unexpectedly started up, amputating the employee's finger. The employee was treated without hospitalization.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2021, the Great Falls site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 23 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.9 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Mountain View Co-op Lincoln Retail
Great Falls · 2021
23
0
0
0.0
2.9
Mountain View Co-op Ulm Retail
Great Falls · 2021
23
0
0
0.0
2.9
Mountain View Co-op Fort Benton Agronomy
Great Falls · 2021
10
1
1
11.3
2.3
Mountain View Co-op Fort Benton Retail
Great Falls · 2021
12
0
0
0.0
2.9
Mountain View Co-op Power Agronomy
Great Falls · 2021
11
0
0
0.0
2.3
Mountain View Co-op Great Falls Agronomy
Great Falls · 2021
7
0
0
0.0
2.3
Mountain View Co-op Helena Store
Great Falls · 2021
15
1
1
12.7
2.9
Mountain View Co-op Agronomy Sales
Great Falls · 2021
9
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. 1 report on file.
May 4, 2020, Great Falls: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
After bagging fertilizer, an employee shut off the bagger and began clearing out the hopper at its top. The auger began to turn and amputated the employee's right index finger.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(ii) In addition, the employer must establish and implement those elements of a written respiratory protection program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily is medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator is cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user. Exception: Employers are not required to include in a written respiratory protection program those employees whose only use of respirators involves the voluntary use of filtering facepieces (dust masks).
(4) If the employer decides that its employees will enter permit spaces, the employer shall develop and implement a written permit space program that complies with this section. The written program shall be available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives.
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
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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.
