Wellington, Kansas · Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing · NAICS 336413
6inspections
20citation items
$26,248current penalties
Mar 6, 2020last inspection
Since 2006, OSHA inspectors have visited Tect Aerospace in Kansas 6 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Mar 6, 2020 on a referral, in Park City.
In all, OSHA issued 20 citation items: 14 serious and 6 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $42,472; today they stand at $26,248, 38% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.212 (machine guarding), 3 times.
Among manufacturing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,600 penalty. Tect Aerospace averages $10,021 across 2 cited inspections.
Tect Aerospace 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.
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Incident on Feb 14, 2020: Maintenance employee incurs multiple injuries when tool chan
At 9:25 a.m. on February 14, 2020, an employee was working for a firm that manufactured high-precision, complex components and assemblies for the aerospace industry. He worked in machinery maintenance. He was troubleshooting the tool changer on a 188C Niigata SPN50 50 CNC horizontal mill machine work center. This was a numerical controlled horizontal mill machine center. As the employee was inside the machine with the door closed, the tool changer cycled. The tool-changer arm struck the employee in the chest. The employee suffered a fractured sternum, two fractured ribs, and small fractures to two bones on his spine (vertebrae). He was hospitalized for two or more days. There was a sensor that was supposed to have stopped the tool-changer arm, but the employee had moved it. The relocation of the sensor allowed the tool-changer cycle to complete and the tool-changer arm to strike the employee in the chest. There was one eyewitness to the incident.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2019, the Wellington site logged 12 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 226 workers: 4.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 6 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
TECT Aerospace, Welco
Wellington · 2019
226
12
2
4.9
2.7
TECT Aerospace, Midwest
Wellington · 2019
20
0
0
0.0
2.7
TECT Aerospace, Corporate
Wichita · 2019
19
0
0
0.0
2.7
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 cutting wood using a table saw. The employee's right hand contacted the saw blade resulting in multiple lacerations to the right hand index, ring and pinky fingers. Two digits were amputated.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Initial determination. Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard shall determine if any exployee may be exposed to lead at or above the action level.
29 CFR 1910.1025(l)(1)(i)
(l) Employee information and training—(1) Training program. (i) Each employer who has a workplace in which there is a potential exposure to airborne lead at any level shall inform employees of the content of Appendices A and B of this regulation.
(ii) Grounding. Category 1 or 2 flammable liquids, or Category 3 flammable liquids with a flashpoint below 100 °F (37.8 °C), shall not be dispensed into containers unless the nozzle and container are electrically interconnected. Where the metallic floorplate on which the container stands while filling is electrically connected to the fill stem or where the fill stem is bonded to the container during filling operations by means of a bond wire, the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have been complied with.
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.
