Pretech Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations
Kansas City, Kansas · Other Concrete Product Manufacturing · NAICS 327390
9inspections
17citation items
$65,276current penalties
Feb 4, 2025last inspection
Pretech Corporation has 9 OSHA inspections on record in Kansas, the first in 2004.
OSHA's last visit started on Feb 4, 2025 on a referral, in Kansas City.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 17 citation items: 14 serious and 3 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $98,834 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $65,276, down 34%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.215, grinders and abrasive wheels (2 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Pretech Corporation averages $16,188 over 4 cited inspections in that time.
Pretech Corporation also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 4 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Kansas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
45employers cited
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Kansas City site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 71 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Pretech Corporation
Kansas City · 2025
71
0
0
0.0
1.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 4 reports on file.
Dec 4, 2023, Tonganoxie: Hospitalization · fractures · thigh(s)
An employee was helping with stripping a precast concrete form. A spreader bar (lifting device) slid off the forks of a loader and struck the employee's right leg causing a broken femur.
An employee was moving a concrete grade ring and placed his finger between a wood pallet and the grade ring, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation.
An employee was troubleshooting a broken water hose on a cement truck. The employee lifted the charge hoop (chute), which then came down and smashed the employee's thumb between the truck's hopper and drum ring, causing a possible fracture or torn nail.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(j) Communication of respirable crystalline silica hazards to employees—(1) Hazard communication. The employer shall include respirable crystalline silica in the program established to comply with the hazard communication standard (HCS) (29 CFR 1910.1200). The employer shall ensure that each employee has access to labels on containers of crystalline silica and safety data sheets, and is trained in accordance with the provisions of HCS and paragraph (j)(3) of this section. The employer shall ensure that at least the following hazards are addressed: Cancer, lung effects, immune system effects, and kidney effects.
29 CFR 1910.1053(j)(3)(i)
(3) Employee information and training. (i) The employer shall ensure that each employee covered by this section can demonstrate knowledge and understanding of at least the following:
(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:
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
