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Resource Material Handling: OSHA inspections and violations

Middlefield, Ohio · Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423930

2inspections
8citation items
$6,400current penalties
Nov 19, 2015last inspection

Resource Material Handling has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Ohio, the first in 2015.

OSHA's last visit started on Nov 19, 2015 after a complaint, in Burton.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 8 citation items: 4 serious and 4 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $7,600 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $6,400, down 16%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.178, forklifts and other powered industrial trucks (2 items).

For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Resource Material Handling averages $3,200 over 2 cited inspections in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Resource Material Handling: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2015
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341066330 OPENED NOV 19, 2015Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 8 employees at the site · Closed Jan 7, 2016

18615 Industrial Creek Drive, Burton, OH 44021 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.133(a)(3) · Eye and face protection
 Serious$1,200$840Nov 24, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.176(b) · Material storage and aisles
 Serious$2,800$1,960Nov 24, 2015Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.157(g)(2) · Portable fire extinguishers
 Other-than-serious$0$0Nov 24, 2015Final
Citation 2, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Nov 24, 2015Final
Citation 2, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Nov 24, 2015Final

Inspection 340892892 OPENED SEP 1, 2015Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 13 employees at the site · Closed Oct 28, 2015

14970 Berkshire Industrail Parkway, Middlefield, OH 44062 · Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i)(b) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$1,200$1,200Oct 2, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.178(o)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$2,400$2,400Oct 2, 2015Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(i) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 2, 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.

Aug 25, 2015, Middlefield: Hospitalization · soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury · leg(s), unspecified

An employee was stuck by plastic containers that fell off a forklift that was operated by another employee when the forklift struck a washing machine. The employee suffered a leg injury.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(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:

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

29 CFR 1910.133 · Eye and face protection

29 CFR 1910.133(a)(3)

(3) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee who wears prescription lenses while engaged in operations that involve eye hazards wears eye protection that incorporates the prescription in its design, or wears eye protection that can be worn over the prescription lenses without disturbing the proper position of the prescription lenses or the protective lenses.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.157 · Portable fire extinguishers

29 CFR 1910.176 · Material storage and aisles

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

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