OSHA has inspected SD Polymers, LLC once in Georgia.
The inspection began on Oct 31, 2018 on a referral, in Macon.
That inspection ended with 3 citation items: 3 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $9,572 and now stand at $5,743, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and SD Polymers, LLC averages $5,743 (1 cited inspection).
SD Polymers, LLC 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 Oct 24, 2018: Employee lacerates fingers when caught by extruder machine,
At 11:45 a.m. on October 24, 2018, an employee was removing the product build-up out of the Extruder Line machine and placed his hand inside to pull out the string plastic material. The employee severely lacerated his fingers which had to be amputated later. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2022, the Macon site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 32 workers: 8.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
SD Polymers LLC
Macon · 2022
32
2
0
8.9
1.1
SD Polymers
Macon · 2021
28
0
0
0.0
1.1
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.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.
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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.
