Mayville, Wisconsin · Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing · NAICS 332312
7inspections
12citation items
$16,977current penalties
Jan 27, 2021last inspection
OSHA has inspected Rumar MFG. Corp. 7 times in Wisconsin since 1997.
The latest one began on Jan 27, 2021 on a referral, in Mayville.
Those inspections ended with 12 citation items: 8 serious and 4 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $20,157 and now stand at $16,977, 16% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Rumar MFG. Corp. averages $9,557 (1 cited inspection).
Rumar MFG. Corp. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Jan 18, 2021: Employee's fingers are partially amputated by punch press
At 2:30 p.m. on January 18, 2021, Employee #1, a machine operator at a metal fabrication business, was operating a Verson mechanical punch press (model B510, serial no. 9079) equipped with tooling to form tubular handles. The employee was using a foot pedal control to operate the punch press when the right ring finger and pinky finger were caught in the punch press tooling. The punch press was not equipped with safeguarding devices to prevent cycling when the employee reached into the point of operation area. The employee sustained partial amputations to both fingers. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the Mayville site logged 6 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 61 workers: 8.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.4 for its industry. Those cases cost 138 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Rumar MFG Corp
Mayville · 2017
61
6
2
8.8
2.4
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.
An employee was making parts on a punch press. The tooling on the press caught two of the employee's fingers and crushed them. The employee suffered a partial amputation to both fingers.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(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 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2)
(2) The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.
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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.
