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Sanimax LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Green Bay, Wisconsin · Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing · NAICS 311613

4inspections
9citation items
$37,950current penalties
Jun 13, 2023last inspection

OSHA has inspected Sanimax LLC 4 times in Wisconsin since 2014.

The latest one began on Jun 13, 2023 after a complaint, in Green Bay.

Those inspections ended with 9 citation items: 8 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $44,033 and now stand at $37,950, 14% lower after settlements or reviews.

Fall protection systems in general industry comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.29.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,872, and Sanimax LLC averages $12,650 (3 cited inspections).

Sanimax LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.

Sanimax LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2014 to 2023
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346764186 OPENED JUN 13, 2023Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Sep 3, 2025

2099 Badgerland Drive, Green Bay, WI 54303 · Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 2c
29 CFR 1910.140(c)(11)(i) · Personal fall protection systems
Serious$0$10,547Nov 15, 2023Final

Inspection 345784623 OPENED FEB 15, 2022Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Jun 14, 2023

2099 Badgerland Drive, Green Bay, WI 54303 · Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(a)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Serious$14,502$10,151Jul 8, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.22(a)(1) · Walking-working surfaces
Serious$12,431$8,702Jul 8, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.305(j)(1)(iv) · Electrical wiring methods
Serious$0$0Jul 8, 2022Final

Inspection 344394283 OPENED OCT 23, 2019Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 196 employees at the site · Closed Jan 24, 2020

2099 Badgerland Drive, Green Bay, WI 54303 · Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.28(b)(6)(ii) · Fall protection in general industry
Serious$7,246$3,623Oct 30, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.29(b)(1) · Fall protection systems in general industry
Serious$6,159$3,080Oct 30, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.29(b)(3) · Fall protection systems in general industry
Serious$0$0Oct 30, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.219(c)(2)(i) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
Serious$3,695$1,848Oct 30, 2019Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(6) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 30, 2019Final

Inspection 339824963 OPENED JUN 16, 2014Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 200 employees at the site · Closed Jul 2, 2014

2099 Badgerland Ave, Green Bay, WI 54303 · Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2024, the Green Bay site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 127 workers: 0.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.7 for its industry.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
Sanimax USA LLC
Green Bay · 2024
127 100.53.7
Sanimax ATO INC
Green Bay · 2024
55 101.63.6
Sanimax ATO LLC
Green Bay · 2017
50 203.83.6

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.

Aug 17, 2023, Green Bay: Hospitalization · concussions · brain

An employee used a T-bar to prop open a trailer door prior to cleaning the trailer. The T-bar fell and struck the employee in the head and neck, resulting in a concussion.

Jun 17, 2016, Green Bay: Hospitalization · heat (thermal) burns, unspecified · multiple body parts, n.e.c.

An employee was observing as his supervisor transferred solid waste to a liquid form and then into a tote. Steam pressure then released from a loose fitting, and the contents sprayed the employee. He suffered severe burns on his upper torso and both forearms.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.140 · Personal fall protection systems

29 CFR 1910.140(c)(11)(i)

(i) Is designed, installed, and used under the supervision of a qualified person; and

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.178(a)(1)

(a) General requirements. (1) This section contains safety requirements relating to fire protection, design, maintenance, and use of fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks, and other specialized industrial trucks powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines. This section does not apply to compressed air or nonflammable compressed gas-operated industrial trucks, nor to farm vehicles, nor to vehicles intended primarily for earth moving or over-the-road hauling.

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(6)

(6) Certification. The employer shall certify that each operator has been trained and evaluated as required by this paragraph (l). The certification shall include the name of the operator, the date of the training, the date of the evaluation, and the identity of the person(s) performing the training or evaluation.

29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts

29 CFR 1910.22 · Walking-working surfaces

29 CFR 1910.28 · Fall protection in general industry

29 CFR 1910.29 · Fall protection systems in general industry

29 CFR 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

Other rendering and meat byproduct processing employers in Wisconsin

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