Republic Plastics: OSHA inspections and violations
Mc Queeney, Texas · Unlaminated Plastics Film and Sheet (except Packaging) Manufacturing · NAICS 326113
3inspections
5citation items
$17,129current penalties
Feb 14, 2024last inspection
Republic Plastics has 3 OSHA inspections on record in Texas, the first in 2010.
OSHA's last visit started on Feb 14, 2024 as a planned inspection, in Mc Queeney.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 5 citation items: 4 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $28,048 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $17,129, down 39%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.119, process safety management (3 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Republic Plastics averages $7,164 over 2 cited inspections in that time.
Republic Plastics also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Aug 25, 2017: Employee suffers a possible heat stroke
At approximately 4:10 p.m. on August 25, 2017, Employee #1, who had been performing maintenance work on the machines, wearing a flame resistant uniform, came into the supervisor's office. The employee reported that he was feeling very bad. Employee #1 said that he had vomited twice during the day after drinking water and Gatorade, but was not urinating. The employee started to sweat profusely. He suddenly stopped sweating, had involuntary muscle spasms, and was having difficulty speaking. The supervisor helped him remove the uniform that he was wearing and applied cool wet rags to his upper body and head. Emergency medical services were contacted and the employee was transported to a local hospital. Employee #1 was treated for hyponatremia, dehydration and possible heat stroke.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Mcqueeney site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 236 workers: 1.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 180 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Republic Plastics, Ltd. (TX)
Mcqueeney · 2025
236
4
1
1.6
2.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
An employee was making adjustments inside a thermoforming stack packer machine when the heater/seal bar came down on their left hand. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their middle finger.
Aug 25, 2017, Mc Queeney: Hospitalization · effects of heat and light, n.e.c. · body systems
While performing maintenance activities, an employee began to feel ill, vomited, and sweated profusely. He started to have involuntary muscle spasms and difficulty speaking, requiring hospitalization for dehydration and other heat-related symptoms.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
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.
