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Spartech LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Laminated Plastics Plate, Sheet (except Packaging), and Shape Manufacturing · NAICS 326130

3inspections
2citation items
$20,531current penalties
May 7, 2024last inspection

Spartech LLC has 3 OSHA inspections on record in Missouri, the first in 1987.

OSHA's last visit started on May 7, 2024 on a referral, in Cape Girardeau.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 2 citation items: 2 serious.

OSHA proposed $6,282 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Spartech LLC averages $10,266 over 2 cited inspections in that time.

Spartech LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.

It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.

Spartech LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 1987 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347463549 OPENED MAY 7, 2024Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 55 employees at the site · Closed Dec 10, 2025

2500 Spartech Dr., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 · Laminated Plastics Plate, Sheet (except Packaging), and Shape Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.147(d)(3) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$0$16,131Jun 17, 2024Final

Inspection 343167524 OPENED MAY 16, 2018Closed

Unprogrammed related · Partial · Safety · 55 employees at the site · Closed Sep 7, 2018

2500 Spartech Dr., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 · Laminated Plastics Plate, Sheet (except Packaging), and Shape Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i) · Fall protection in general industry
Serious$6,282$4,400May 22, 2018Final

Inspection 18192310 OPENED JUL 8, 1987Closed

Planned · No inspection · Safety · 20 employees at the site · Closed Jul 8, 1987

7777 Bonhomme Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Injury and illness logs

From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.

In 2025, the Cape Girardeau site logged 5 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 58 workers: 7.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry.

Site and yearWorkersCasesDays-away casesRateIndustry median
spartech
Cape Girardeau · 2025
58 507.62.6
Spartech LLC
Cape Girardeau · 2024
50 213.52.6
Spartech- Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau · 2022
63 101.72.6
Spartech LLC - Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau · 2021
110 203.02.6

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.

Aug 28, 2024, Cape Girardeau: Hospitalization · cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures · leg(s) unspecified

An employee was building wooden pallets when a pneumatic nail gun discharged a nail into their leg. The employee sustained a laceration and was hospitalized.

May 1, 2024, Cape Girardeau: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)

While trying to remove dust from a hopper, an employee sustained a partial amputation to his left ring fingertip. The equipment was running at the time.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(d)(3)

(3) Machine or equipment isolation. All energy isolating devices that are needed to control the energy to the machine or equipment shall be physically located and operated in such a manner as to isolate the machine or equipment from the energy source(s).

29 CFR 1910.28 · Fall protection in general industry

29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i)

(b) Protection from fall hazards—(1) Unprotected sides and edges. (i) Except as provided elsewhere in this section, the employer must ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet (1.2 m) or more above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of the following:

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