OSHA has inspected The Binding Edge, Inc. 2 times in Wisconsin since 2009.
The latest one began on Feb 19, 2025 on a referral, in Neenah.
Those inspections ended with 9 citation items: 7 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $13,335 and now stand at $7,950, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.219.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and The Binding Edge, Inc. averages $6,950 (1 cited inspection).
The Binding Edge, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Neenah site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 30 workers: 4.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 21 days away from work.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Feb 10, 2025, Neenah: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
An employee was setting up a book-binding machine. She was correcting a problem in the machine when she suffered a partial amputation to the left index fingertip, caused by a belt and gear.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.
