OSHA has inspected Sterling Packaging, LLC 3 times in Alabama since 2018.
The latest one began on Jun 20, 2023 after a complaint, in Monroeville.
Those inspections ended with 6 citation items: 1 serious and 5 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $15,986 and now stand at $11,088, 31% 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 Sterling Packaging, LLC averages $3,696 (3 cited inspections).
Sterling Packaging, LLC 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.
Alabama · latest 90 days of OSHA records
102employers cited
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Incident on Jun 1, 2018: Employee catches arm between roll of paper and machine and s
At 3:45 p.m. on June 1, 2018, an employee was placing an 84 inch roll of paper that weighed 4,000 lbs on a sheeter machine and attempted to slide the roll into the center clot of the machine but it was too big. The employee tried to push the paper to the side to fit it into the machine when her arm was caught between it and the frame. The employee suffered a serious contusion and was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Monroeville site logged 10 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 40 workers: 28.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.1 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Sterling Packaging LLC
Monroeville · 2025
40
10
0
28.8
2.1
Sterling Packaging, LLC
Monroeville · 2024
38
2
0
6.2
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. 1 report on file.
An employee was attempting to load a new paper roll into a machine when the employee's left arm was caught between the roll and the machine, causing puncture wounds and contusion/pinching injuries around the left elbow.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.41 · Electronic submission of Employer Identification Number (EIN) and injury and illness records to OSHA
29 CFR 1904.41(a)(2)
(2) Annual electronic submission of information from OSHA Form 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses and OSHA Form 301 Injury and Illness Incident Report by establishments with 100 or more employees in designated industries. If your establishment had 100 or more employees at any time during the previous calendar year, and your establishment is classified in an industry listed in appendix B to subpart E of this part, then you must electronically submit information from OSHA Forms 300 and 301 to OSHA or OSHA's designee. You must submit the information once a year, no later than the date listed in paragraph (c) of this section of the year after the calendar year covered by the forms.
(iii) Waste and residue. Combustible waste material and residues in a building or unit operating area shall be kept to a minimum, stored in covered metal receptacles and disposed of daily.
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2)
(2) The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.
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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.
