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Solution Matrix Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Rocky Mount, Virginia · Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing · NAICS 339113

1inspections
2citation items
$13,277current penalties
Oct 8, 2020last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Solution Matrix Inc. in Virginia one time.

It opened on Oct 8, 2020 on a referral, in Rocky Mount.

In all, OSHA issued 2 citation items: 2 serious.

The penalties, $13,277 in total, stand where OSHA first set them.

The rule cited most here is 1910.212 (machine guarding), 2 times.

Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Solution Matrix Inc. averages $13,277 across 1 cited inspection.

Solution Matrix Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2020 to 2020
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344977723 OPENED OCT 8, 2020Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 36 employees at the site · Closed Mar 3, 2021

60 Commerce Rd, Rocky Mount, VA 24151 · Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Oct 5, 2020: Employee amputates fingertip in machine

At 2:00 p.m. on October 5, 2020, an employee was pulling fabric from a machine. The blade from the machine activated and caught her finger in between the blade and base. The employee amputated her right pinky fingertip and was hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$13,277$13,277Dec 2, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$0$0Dec 2, 2020Final

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)(3)(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.

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii)

(iii) Special handtools for placing and removing material shall be such as to permit easy handling of material without the operator placing a hand in the danger zone. Such tools shall not be in lieu of other guarding required by this section, but can only be used to supplement protection provided.

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