Peterson Manufacturing: OSHA inspections and violations
Grandview, Missouri · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · NAICS 326199
10inspections
26citation items
$36,125current penalties
Sep 22, 2020last inspection
Peterson Manufacturing has 10 OSHA inspections on record in Missouri, the first in 1999.
OSHA's last visit started on Sep 22, 2020 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Grandview.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 26 citation items: 18 serious and 8 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $53,806 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $36,125, down 33%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.305, electrical wiring methods (6 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Peterson Manufacturing averages $9,581 over 2 cited inspections in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Peterson Manufacturing 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.
Missouri · latest 90 days of OSHA records
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Incident on Sep 21, 2020 (fatal): Employee with covid-19 infection dies
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on September 21, 2020, an employee was exposed to SARS-C0-V-2 (COVID-19) on, or about August 20 - 21, 2020. The employee tested positive on August 25, 2020, and was hospitalized on August 31, 2020. The employee died due to complications of SARS-C0-V-2 (COVID-19) on September 19, 2020.
Incident on Mar 22, 2017: Employee amputates finger on tube cutting machine
At 10:30 a.m. on March 22, 2017, Employee #1 was using the Eubanks tube cutting machine to cut two inch lengths of tubing. Static electricity had built up on the plastic tubing, causing it to clump at the outfeed. When this occurs, the employees are trained to tap on the bottom of the metal chute to discharge the static and release the clumped cut tubing. The employee reached under the guard, over the top of the chute, and swept the pieces away from the machine. When doing this, her right index finger entered the point of operations and the pad of her right index finger was amputated.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2021, the Grandview site logged 25 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 309 workers: 7.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 113 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Peterson Manufacturing Company
Grandview · 2021
309
25
5
7.8
2.7
Vector Tool & Engineering
Grandview · 2021
33
2
0
5.7
2.3
Mission Plastics North
Grandview · 2020
150
13
4
10.1
2.7
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.
Mar 22, 2017, Grandview: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee's fingertip was amputated after entering a tube-cutting machine.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Installed Asbestos Containing Material. Employers and building owners are required to treat installed TSI and sprayed on and troweled-on surfacing materials as ACM in buildings constructed no later than 1980 for purposes of this standard. These materials are designated “presumed ACM or PACM”, and are defined in paragraph (b) of this section. Asphalt and vinyl flooring material installed no later than 1980 also must be treated as asbestos-containing. The employer or building owner may demonstrate that PACM and flooring material do not contain asbestos by complying with paragraph (j)(8)(iii) of this section.
(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.
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.
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