Spartan Logistics: OSHA inspections and violations
Columbus, Ohio · General Warehousing and Storage · NAICS 493110
5inspections
14citation items
$29,602current penalties
Mar 15, 2022last inspection
OSHA has inspected Spartan Logistics 5 times in Ohio since 2006.
The latest one began on Mar 15, 2022 on a referral, in Toledo.
Those inspections ended with 14 citation items: 13 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $57,287 and now stand at $29,602, 48% lower after settlements or reviews.
Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1910.178.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $3,560, and Spartan Logistics averages $13,123 (2 cited inspections).
Spartan Logistics 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.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
273employers cited
2 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 2024, the Columbus site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 32 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Columbus 1
Columbus · 2024
32
0
0
0.0
2.6
Angola
Toledo · 2024
19
0
0
0.0
2.6
Creekside
Lockbourne · 2024
15
0
0
0.0
2.6
South
Toledo · 2024
10
0
0
0.0
2.6
Nebraska
Toledo · 2024
9
0
0
0.0
2.6
Columbus 3
Columbus · 2024
6
0
0
0.0
2.6
Columbus 2
Columbus · 2022
25
0
0
0.0
2.6
Columbus 1-Overhead
Columbus · 2022
28
0
0
0.0
2.6
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Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Mar 7, 2022, Toledo: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
At 8:00 a.m. on March 7, 2022, a warehouse employee was guiding a forklift driver. The forklift lifted up a pallet and set it down again on a stack of pallets to straighten it. It came down on the employee's right hand, causing the amputation of the ring fingertip.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(e) To achieve compliance with paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section, administrative or engineering controls must first be determined and implemented whenever feasible. When such controls are not feasible to achieve full compliance, protective equipment or any other protective measures shall be used to keep the exposure of employees to air contaminants within the limits prescribed in this section. Any equipment and/or technical measures used for this purpose must be approved for each particular use by a competent industrial hygienist or other technically qualified person. Whenever respirators are used, their use shall comply with 1910.134.
(c) General requirements. (1) The employer shall provide portable fire extinguishers and shall mount, locate and identify them so that they are readily accessible to employees without subjecting the employees to possible injury.
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(ii)(b)
(B) The operator has been involved in an accident or near-miss incident;
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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.