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Shape LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Addison, Illinois · Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing · NAICS 335311

1inspections
1citation items
$7,252current penalties
Nov 29, 2021last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Shape LLC in Illinois one time.

It opened on Nov 29, 2021 on a referral, in Addison.

In all, OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

The penalties, $7,252 in total, stand where OSHA first set them.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Shape LLC averages $7,252 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Shape LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2021 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345658678 OPENED NOV 29, 2021Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 41 employees at the site · Closed Jun 1, 2022

2105 Corporate Drive, Addison, IL 60101 · Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Nov 9, 2021: Employee amputates finger in laminating machine

At 11:30 am on November 9, 2021, an employee was operating a tabletop laminating machine for transformers. The employee reached under the machine to realign the wire on a transformer coil. His finger was caught where the metal lamination plates were automatically inserted into the transformer coil. The tip of the employee's left middle finger got amputated. The employee was treated without hospitalization.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
Serious$7,252$7,252Apr 29, 2022Final

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.

Nov 9, 2021, Addison: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was operating a table-top laminating machine for transformers. As the employee reached beneath the machine frame to adjust the position of a wire on the transformer coil, his finger was caught in the point of operation where the metal lamination plates are automatically inserted into the transformer coil, resulting in amputation of the left middle fingertip.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1)

(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.

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