OSHA has inspected Stanpac USA, LLC 3 times in Texas since 2011.
The latest one began on Aug 25, 2017 to monitor an earlier case, in Brenham.
Those inspections ended with 7 citation items: 6 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $30,537 and now stand at $20,514, 33% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Stanpac USA, LLC averages $11,734 (1 cited inspection).
Stanpac USA, LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Apr 18, 2017: Employee is struck by machine while providing training and a
At 8:45 a.m. on April 18, 2017, an employee was conducting training and amputated the tip from one of his fingers when the employee was struck by a machine. No further details were provided about the accident. Except, the employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Brenham site logged 17 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 296 workers: 5.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 5 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Stanpac USA LLC
Brenham · 2025
296
17
1
5.5
2.1
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
Mar 12, 2020, Brenham: Hospitalization · fractures and dislocations · finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
An employee was helping install a gearbox on a machine. The gearbox slipped off the lift and caught the employee's right hand against the machine. The hand was lacerated, the middle finger was broken, and the little finger was dislocated.
On September 20, 2018, an employee was cleaning a conveyor belt when the employee's left middle finger was caught between the belt and plexiglass, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The belt was moving at the time of the incident.
(a) Basic requirement. You must use OSHA 300, 300-A, and 301 forms, or equivalent forms, for recordable injuries and illnesses. The OSHA 300 form is called the Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, the 300-A is the Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, and the OSHA 301 form is called the Injury and Illness Incident Report.
(ii) In demonstrating that a level of safety is achieved in the tagout program which is equivalent to the level of safety obtained by using a lockout program, the employer shall demonstrate full compliance with all tagout-related provisions of this standard together with such additional elements as are necessary to provide the equivalent safety available from the use of a lockout device. Additional means to be considered as part of the demonstration of full employee protection shall include the implementation of additional safety measures such as the removal of an isolating circuit element, blocking of a controlling switch, opening of an extra disconnecting device, or the removal of a valve handle to reduce the likelihood of inadvertent energization.
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:
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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.
