OSHA has inspected Sunstream Corporation 10 times in New York since 1987.
The latest one began on Apr 7, 2017 as part of a related case, in Binghamton.
Those inspections ended with 12 citation items: 12 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $17,930 and now stand at $11,910, 34% lower after settlements or reviews.
Hazard communication comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.1200.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for staffing, cleaning and waste services employers since 2015 is $2,201, and Sunstream Corporation averages $3,742 (2 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Sunstream Corporation also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
The Wage and Hour Division has 1 case on it since 2015, with $231 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
New York · latest 90 days of OSHA records
359employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Nov 24, 1997 (fatal): Employee killed when struck by falling steel beam
Employee #1 was walking along and then around the blind, right side of a crawler excavator. The excavator was moving left to right when it released a 14 ft long steel I-beam. The beam struck Employee #1 on the head, killing him. t
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 100492545 OPENED OCT 6, 1987Closed
Complaint · Partial · Health · 15 employees at the site · Closed Oct 6, 1987
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Binghamton site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 33 workers: 3.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Sunstream Corporation
Binghamton · 2025
33
1
0
3.1
1.0
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Sep 13, 2015 to Mar 12, 2017
Binghamton
8
7
$231
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1)
(g) Safety data sheets. (1) Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)
(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.
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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.
