Smith Industries, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Clearwater, Florida · All Other Specialty Trade Contractors · NAICS 238990
3inspections
3citation items
$7,758current penalties
Sep 21, 2016last inspection
OSHA has inspected Smith Industries, Inc. 3 times in Florida since 1973.
The latest one began on Sep 21, 2016 on a referral, in Largo.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 1 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $12,930 and now stand at $7,758, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Smith Industries, Inc. averages $7,758 (1 cited inspection).
Smith Industries, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Florida · latest 90 days of OSHA records
338employers cited
5 of them in the same industry
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Clearwater site logged 10 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 131 workers: 9.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 15 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Smith Industries Inc.
Clearwater · 2025
131
10
3
9.2
0.1
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(3) How quickly must each injury or illness be recorded? You must enter each recordable injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log and 301 Incident Report within seven (7) calendar days of receiving information that a recordable injury or illness has occurred.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
29 CFR 1926.300 · Tools—Hand and Power: general requirements
29 CFR 1926.300(b)(4)(ii)
(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.
