OSHA has inspected Restoration Hardware 3 times in Ohio since 2008.
The latest one began on Apr 29, 2022 after a complaint, in West Jefferson.
Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 1 serious and 7 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $23,523 and now stand at $17,152, 27% lower after settlements or reviews.
Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.178.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $3,560, and Restoration Hardware averages $8,576 (2 cited inspections).
Restoration Hardware also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
275employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Jun 27, 2017: Employee's fingertip is amputated by moving chain
At 10:35 p.m. on June 27, 2017, Employee #1 was working alone, using an aerial boom lift, performing preventative maintenance on a conveyor. The employee was under the conveyor and took the guards off of the conveyor that enclosed the drive chains. Employee #1 did not shut off the conveyor nor perform lockout/tagout procedures, and allowed it to run while holding a rag to the chain to catch excess oil. The chain caught the rag, resulting in the employee's finger being pulled into the chain. The tip of his right middle finger was amputated.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the West Jefferson site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 300 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 5.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Ohio DC
West Jefferson · 2017
300
0
0
0.0
5.0
Ohio Care Center
West Jefferson · 2017
157
0
0
0.0
5.0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(f) Hepatitis B vaccination and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up—(1) General. (i) The employer shall make available the hepatitis B vaccine and vaccination series to all employees who have occupational exposure, and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up to all employees who have had an exposure incident.
29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(ii)(b)
(B) At least annually thereafter.
29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(d)
(D) An explanation of the employer's exposure control plan and the means by which the employee can obtain a copy of the written plan;
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
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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.
