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Teknapack Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Circle Pines, Minnesota · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · NAICS 326199

4inspections
9citation items
$1,508current penalties
Aug 9, 2021last inspection

OSHA has inspected Teknapack Inc 4 times in Minnesota since 2014.

The latest one began on Aug 9, 2021 after a complaint, in Circle Pines.

Those inspections ended with 9 citation items: 5 serious and 4 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $2,025 and now stand at $1,508, 26% lower after settlements or reviews.

Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.178.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Teknapack Inc averages $402 (3 cited inspections).

Teknapack Inc: OSHA citation items per year, 2014 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345467690 OPENED AUG 9, 2021Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 13 employees at the site · Closed Feb 18, 2022

471 Apollo Drive, Suite 10, Circle Pines, MN 55014 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(c)(2)(vii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$450$315Sep 28, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.178(l) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$225$158Sep 28, 2021Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Other-than-serious$100$70Sep 28, 2021Final

Inspection 345476022 OPENED AUG 9, 2021Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 13 employees at the site · Closed Oct 28, 2021

471 Apollo Drive, Suite 10, Circle Pines, MN 55014 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i) · Respiratory protection
 Other-than-serious$100$70Sep 28, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 2 Other-than-serious$150$105Sep 28, 2021Final

Inspection 342431608 OPENED JUN 27, 2017Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 10 employees at the site · Closed Jul 24, 2017

471 Apollo Drive, Suite 10, Circle Pines, MN 55014 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$375$262Jun 30, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.242(b) · Hand and power tools
 Serious$225$158Jun 30, 2017Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.303(b)(2) · Electrical equipment, general requirements
 Other-than-serious$100$70Jun 30, 2017Final

Inspection 317825297 OPENED AUG 19, 2014Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 10 employees at the site · Closed Sep 8, 2014

471 Apollo Dr Ste10, Circle Pines, MN 55014 · All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.134(a)(2) · Respiratory protection
 Serious$300$300Aug 21, 2014Closed

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.134 · Respiratory protection

29 CFR 1910.134(a)(2)

(2) The CNP system defaults selected for test pressure shall be set at −15 mm of water (-0.58 inches of water) and the modeled inspiratory flow rate shall be 53.8 liters per minute for performing fit tests.

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i)

(i) An employer may provide respirators at the request of employees or permit employees to use their own respirators, if the employer determines that such respirator use will not in itself create a hazard. If the employer determines that any voluntary respirator use is permissible, the employer shall provide the respirator users with the information contained in appendix D to this section (“Information for Employees Using Respirators When Not Required Under the Standard”); and

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.178(c)(2)(vii)

(vii) Only approved power-operated industrial trucks designated as DY, EE, or EX shall be used in atmospheres in which combustible dust will not normally be in suspension in the air or will not be likely to be thrown into suspension by the normal operation of equipment or apparatus in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitable mixtures but where deposits or accumulations of such dust may be ignited by arcs or sparks originating in the truck.

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.242 · Hand and power tools

29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 5206.700

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