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Ortronics Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Farmingdale, New York · Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing · NAICS 335931

1inspections
1citation items
$12,145current penalties
Aug 3, 2020last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Ortronics Inc. in New York one time.

It opened on Aug 3, 2020 on a referral, in Farmingdale.

In all, OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 other-than-serious.

The penalties, $12,145 in total, stand where OSHA first set them.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Ortronics Inc. averages $12,145 across 1 cited inspection.

Ortronics Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Ortronics Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2020 to 2020
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344870795 OPENED AUG 3, 2020Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 103 employees at the site · Closed Feb 8, 2021

200 Finn Court, Farmingdale, NY 11735 · Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jul 31, 2020: Employee amputates four fingers in brake press

At 7:30 p.m. on July 31, 2020, an employee was operating an Amada HFBO Press Brake to form stock into brush brackets when his hand was caught in the unguarded point of operation as the machine cycled. The employee was hospitalized to treat amputation of four fingers on his right hand.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
Other-than-serious$12,145$12,145Jan 6, 2021Final

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2022, the Farmingdale site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 141 workers: 0.7 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.3 for its industry.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
Ortronics Inc
Farmingdale · 2022
141 100.73.3

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.

Jul 31, 2020, Farmingdale: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.

An employee was operating a brake press. The press activated and severed four fingers on the employee's right hand.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

Other current-carrying wiring device manufacturing employers in New York

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