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Nature's Answer, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Hauppague, New York · Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing · NAICS 325411

3inspections
13citation items
$20,663current penalties
Sep 6, 2016last inspection

Nature's Answer, Inc. has 3 OSHA inspections on record in New York, the first in 1994.

OSHA's last visit started on Sep 6, 2016 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Hauppauge.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 13 citation items: 10 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $28,650 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $20,663, down 28%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.219, belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts (3 items).

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Nature's Answer, Inc. averages $19,013 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Nature's Answer, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 1994 to 2016
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341749703 OPENED SEP 6, 2016Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 29 employees at the site · Closed Apr 27, 2018

75 Commerce Drive, Hauppauge, NY 11788 · Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Sep 2, 2016 (fatal): Employee is killed in fall from elevated forklift.

At approximately 3:00 p.m. on September 2, 2016, an employee was accessing product from shelving while working from an elevated forklift. The forklift the employee was standing on was struck by another forklift, causing the employee to lose his balance. The employee fell approximately 10ft,and was killed by fracturing his skull on impact.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
OSH Act Section 5(a)(1) · General Duty Clause
 Serious$12,675$12,000Mar 1, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$12,675$7,013Mar 1, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(6) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$0$0Mar 1, 2017Final

Inspection 109111492 OPENED FEB 14, 1994Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 10 employees at the site · Closed May 24, 1994

75 Commerce Drive, Hauppague, NY 11788 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$750$375Mar 30, 1994Closed
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.219(e)(1)(i) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$0$0Mar 30, 1994Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$750$375Mar 30, 1994Closed
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.2(a) · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
 Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 30, 1994Closed
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.37(q)(1) · Exit routes
 Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 30, 1994Closed

Inspection 109111500 OPENED FEB 14, 1994Closed

Planned · Complete · Health · 10 employees at the site · Closed Jul 27, 1994

75 Commerce Drive, Hauppague, NY 11788 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.151(c) · First aid and eyewash
 Serious$450$225Apr 8, 1994Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$450$225Apr 8, 1994Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii) · Hazard communication
 Serious$450$225Apr 8, 1994Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.1200(h) · Hazard communication
 Serious$450$225Apr 8, 1994Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1) · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards
 Other-than-serious$0$0Apr 8, 1994Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1903.2 · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards

29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1)

(a)(1) Each employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices, to be furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the nearest office of the Department of Labor. Such notice or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Each employer shall take steps to insure that such notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by other material.

29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii)

(ii) The label for bulk shipments of hazardous chemicals must be on the immediate container, transmitted with the shipping papers or the bills of lading, or, with the agreement of the receiving entity, transmitted by technological or electronic means so that it is immediately available to workers in printed form on the receiving end of shipment.

29 CFR 1910.151 · First aid and eyewash

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

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

29 CFR 1910.37 · Exit routes

OSH Act Section 5 · General Duty Clause

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