OSHA has inspected Shuster's Building Components 3 times in Pennsylvania since 1995.
The latest one began on Oct 17, 2017 after a complaint, in North Huntingdon.
Those inspections ended with 5 citation items: 3 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $6,652 and now stand at $4,656, 30% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Shuster's Building Components averages $4,656 (1 cited inspection).
Shuster's Building Components 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 2016, the North Huntingdon site logged 15 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 122 workers: 11.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.5 for its industry. Those cases cost 123 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Shuster's Building Components
North Huntingdon · 2016
122
15
3
11.6
3.5
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.
Jun 18, 2025, Irwin: Hospitalization · cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures · wrist(s)
An employee was using a staple gun to attach a head onto a door unit when a staple shot into his left wrist, resulting in a puncture wound.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(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.
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i)
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(ii)
(ii) The procedures shall clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, the following:
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.
