Universal Packaging Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations
Kirkwood, Missouri · Other Paperboard Container Manufacturing · NAICS 322219
18inspections
92citation items
$41,518current penalties
Sep 5, 2024last inspection
OSHA has inspected Universal Packaging Corporation 18 times in Missouri since 1982.
The latest one began on Sep 5, 2024 after a complaint, in Saint Louis.
Those inspections ended with 92 citation items: 54 serious, 6 repeat and 32 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $91,207 and now stand at $41,518, 54% lower after settlements or reviews.
Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts comes up most often in these citations: 14 items under 1910.219.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Universal Packaging Corporation averages $6,440 (5 cited inspections).
Universal Packaging Corporation 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.
Missouri · latest 90 days of OSHA records
121employers cited
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Incident on Oct 20, 2020: Employee lacerates finger while clearing jam
At 1:00 p.m. on October 20, 2020, an employee was operating a seamer machine. When the machine jammed, she attempted to clear the machine by reaching into the area of operation. The employee lacerated her right index finger and was hospitalized.
Incident on Sep 15, 2020: Employee amputates fingertip and lacerates thumb on labeling
At 1:30 p.m. on September 15, 2020, an employee was operating a Payco labeling machine. The employee was looking underneath the machine to see if there was problem. As she placed her hand on the machine, her glove was pulled into a portion of a partially guarded chain and sprocket. The employee amputated a fingertip to the bottom of the nail and also lacerated her thumb. She was treated without hospitalization.
Incident on Jul 10, 2020: Employee fractures fingers in chain and sprocket
At 12:00 noon on July 10, 2020, an employee was operating a machine when it jammed and she attempted to clear it. While attempting to clear the jam, the employee placed her hand on another machine that had an unguarded chain and sprocket. The employee's hand was pulled into the chain and sprocket and she suffered three broken fingers. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2020, the Kirkwood site logged 7 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 34 workers: 21.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 135 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Universal Packaging Corp
Kirkwood · 2020
34
7
4
21.6
2.1
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 20, 2020, Saint Louis: Hospitalization · cuts, lacerations · finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
An employee was unjamming a seamer machine and lacerated her right index finger.
(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)(8)
(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)
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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.
