OSHA has inspected Tanis, Inc. 5 times in Wisconsin since 2013.
The latest one began on Nov 20, 2025 on a referral, in Delafield.
Those inspections ended with 19 citation items: 12 serious and 7 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $48,218 and now stand at $30,717, 36% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 6 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Tanis, Inc. averages $11,308 (2 cited inspections).
Tanis, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Wisconsin · latest 90 days of OSHA records
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Incident on Apr 19, 2019: Employee amputates finger and lacerates thumb and palm in wi
At 8:00 a.m. on April 19, 2019, an employee was operating a wire brush machine. The employee was setting up the Borghi U-Twist machine. The machine produced wire brushes to the specified requirements. At the time of the incident, the employee had set the machine to manual mode, engaging the wired remote pendant. The pendant permitted various movement when the correct command functions were selected, while the interlocked doors were open. The pendant required constant pressure on the button to continue the movement. The employee had opened the hinged doors near the carriage. The pendant was placed on the shelf inside the door. In order to determine the correct number of rotations to set the correct number of plates, the employee had to catch and weight the filament that came off the carriage chain. The employee had his right hand in the machine and was operating the toggle control with his left. The carriage moved, pinching his right hand against the wire plates. The employee suffered a severe laceration to the thumb and palm and an amputation to the index finger as a result. to the index finger as a result.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Delafield site logged 5 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 100 workers: 5.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.5 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Tanis Brush
Delafield · 2024
100
5
0
5.4
2.5
Tanis, Inc.
Delafield · 2020
84
2
1
1.9
2.5
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.
Oct 6, 2025, Delafield: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
An employee was cutting hanks of material on an abrasive cutter. A hank end opened up. As the employee was working to clear loose material, the machine was triggered and amputated 1/4 inch of his right middle fingertip.
On April 19, 2019, an employee was weighing the filament density on a twisting machine. The machine was equipped with a semi-portable control panel with a toggle button. While the employee was operating the toggle control, his right hand was inside the machine. The carriage moved and pinched his right index finger, resulting in an amputation to the finger.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
29 CFR 1910.1020 · Access to employee exposure and medical records
29 CFR 1910.1020(g)(1)(i)
(i) The existence, location, and availability of any records covered by this section;
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
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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.
