Samoa Tuna Processors: OSHA inspections and violations
Pago Pago, American Samoa · Commercial and Institutional Building Construction · NAICS 236220
3inspections
3citation items
$5,983current penalties
Mar 12, 2018last inspection
Samoa Tuna Processors has 3 OSHA inspections on record in American Samoa, the first in 2013.
OSHA's last visit started on Mar 12, 2018 as a planned inspection, in Pago Pago.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 3 citation items: 3 serious.
OSHA proposed $8,198 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $5,983, down 27%.
For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,080. Samoa Tuna Processors averages $2,308 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
Samoa Tuna Processors 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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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the Pago Pago site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 139 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Cannery
Pago Pago · 2017
139
0
0
0.0
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. 1 report on file.
An employee was cleaning a packer machine when his hand contacted the area where a compressing piston was moving and his right index finger was squashed. His right index finger had to be surgically amputated.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Hepatitis B Vaccination. (i) Hepatitis B vaccination shall be made available after the employee has received the training required in paragraph (g)(2)(vii)(I) and within 10 working days of initial assignment to all employees who have occupational exposure unless the employee has previously received the complete hepatitis B vaccination series, antibody testing has revealed that the employee is immune, or the vaccine is contraindicated for medical reasons.
(b) In the absence of an infirmary, clinic, or hospital in near proximity to the workplace which is used for the treatment of all injured employees, a person or persons shall be adequately trained to render first aid. Adequate first aid supplies shall be readily available.
29 CFR 1917.50 · Certification of marine terminal material handling devices (See also mandatory appendix I, of this part)
29 CFR 1917.50(a)
(a) The employer shall not use any material handling device listed in paragraph (c) of this section until he has ascertained that the device has been certificated, as evidenced by current and valid documents attesting to compliance with the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section.
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