OSHA has inspected Starkist 6 times in American Samoa since 2011.
The latest one began on Apr 9, 2015 as a planned inspection, in Pago Pago.
Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 4 serious and 4 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $18,310 and now stand at $11,006, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
Miscellaneous auxiliary gear comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1917.42.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,874, and Starkist averages $2,499 (1 cited inspection).
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Inspection 340139054 OPENED DEC 12, 2014Closed
Follow-up · Partial · Safety · 5 employees at the site · Closed Mar 6, 2015
Route 1, Atuu, Pago Pago, AS 96799 · Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 331077354 OPENED SEP 27, 2011Closed
Programmed related · Partial · Safety · 1,500 employees at the site · Closed Dec 19, 2011
Starkist Dock At Atu'u, Pago Pago, AS 96799 · Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
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 9, 2023, Pago Pago: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was pushing pieces of fish into a filler machine when her fingers contacted the knife of the filler machine. The employee's index and ring fingers were amputated.
Apr 27, 2015, Pago Pago: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
An employee was cleaning cans from the filler machine when his/her hand was caught in the machine resulting in the amputation of the right 5th finger.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
