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Precise Packaging Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations

Fall River, Massachusetts · Toilet Preparation Manufacturing · NAICS 325620

3inspections
14citation items
$19,702current penalties
Apr 8, 2019last inspection

OSHA has inspected Precise Packaging Incorporated 3 times in Massachusetts since 1995.

The latest one began on Apr 8, 2019 after a complaint, in Fall River.

Those inspections ended with 14 citation items: 12 serious and 2 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $28,909 and now stand at $19,702, 32% lower after settlements or reviews.

Process safety management comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.119.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Precise Packaging Incorporated averages $5,967 (1 cited inspection).

Precise Packaging Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

Precise Packaging Incorporated: OSHA citation items per year, 1995 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344172275 OPENED APR 8, 2019Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 143 employees at the site · Closed Oct 21, 2019

300 Riggenbach Road, Fall River, MA 02720 · All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$6,819$3,410Sep 12, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$5,115$2,558Sep 12, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.146(g)(1) · Permit-required confined spaces
 Serious$0$0Sep 12, 2019Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i) · Lockout/tagout
 Other-than-serious$0$0Sep 12, 2019Final

Inspection 339017766 OPENED APR 19, 2013Closed

Referral · Partial · Health · 75 employees at the site · Closed May 30, 2014

300 Riggenbach Road, Fall River, MA 02720 · Toilet Preparation Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i) · Process safety management
 Serious$2,800$2,100Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1) · Process safety management
 Serious$2,800$2,100Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.119(h)(2)(iv) · Process safety management
 Serious$2,100$1,575Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(2) · Process safety management
 Serious$2,800$2,100Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 1910.120(q)(2) · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
 Serious$3,500$2,625Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.176(c) · Material storage and aisles
 Serious$2,100$1,575Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 1, item 8b
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$785Oct 10, 2013Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.106(e)(6)(i) · Flammable liquids
 Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 10, 2013Final

Inspection 109171298 OPENED JUN 20, 1995Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 45 employees at the site · Closed Jul 17, 1995

300 Riggenbach Road, Fall River, MA 02720 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.23(c)(1) · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
 Serious$500$500Jun 27, 1995Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$375$375Jun 27, 1995Closed

Injury and illness logs

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

In 2021, the Fall River site logged 6 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 120 workers: 1.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 15 days away from work.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
Precise Packaging LLC.
Fall River · 2021
120 641.91.7

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.106 · Flammable liquids

29 CFR 1910.106(e)(6)(i)

(6) Sources of ignition—(i) General. Adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent the ignition of flammable vapors. Sources of ignition include but are not limited to open flames; lightning; smoking; cutting and welding; hot surfaces; frictional heat; static, electrical, and mechanical sparks; spontaneous ignition, including heat-producing chemical reactions; and radiant heat.

29 CFR 1910.119 · Process safety management

29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)

(3) Information pertaining to the equipment in the process. (i) Information pertaining to the equipment in the process shall include:

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)

(f) Operating procedures. (1) The employer shall develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information and shall address at least the following elements.

29 CFR 1910.120 · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.146 · Permit-required confined spaces

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.176 · Material storage and aisles

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

29 CFR 1910.23 · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes

Other toilet preparation manufacturing employers in Massachusetts

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