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Phillip Lighting: OSHA inspections and violations

Tupelo, Mississippi · Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing · NAICS 335122

1inspections
1citation items
$4,200current penalties
Oct 22, 2015last inspection

OSHA has inspected Phillip Lighting once in Mississippi.

The inspection began on Oct 22, 2015 on a referral, in Tupelo.

That inspection ended with 1 citation item: 1 serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $7,000 and now stand at $4,200, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Phillip Lighting averages $4,200 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Phillip Lighting: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2015
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341015295 OPENED OCT 22, 2015Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 494 employees at the site · Closed Jan 22, 2016

776 South Green Street, Tupelo, MS 38801 · Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
Serious$7,000$4,200Dec 17, 2015Final

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.

Oct 16, 2015, Tupelo: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified

While changing a machine die, an employee's left index finger got caught between the hydraulic clamp and cylinder, resulting in a finger amputation.

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)(1)

(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.

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