Uniwell Laboratories: OSHA inspections and violations
Fort Worth, Texas · Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing · NAICS 325411
3inspections
7citation items
$11,338current penalties
Nov 8, 2023last inspection
OSHA has inspected Uniwell Laboratories 3 times in Texas since 2017.
The latest one began on Nov 8, 2023 on a referral, in Fort Worth.
Those inspections ended with 7 citation items: 6 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $21,433 and now stand at $11,338, 47% lower after settlements or reviews.
Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.147.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Uniwell Laboratories averages $5,669 (2 cited inspections).
Uniwell Laboratories 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 Sep 1, 2017: Employee's finger tip is amputated while trouble shooting a
At 8:45 a.m. on September 1, 2017, an employee was getting the line ready to run. The employee previously had problems with the line. The belt driven auger on the hopper was not moving. The pulley was turning but not the belt. The employee reached for the belt to give it a tug when the pulley grabbed the belt and the employee's finger. The employee's finger tip was amputated.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Fort Worth site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 352 workers: 1.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.1 for its industry. Those cases cost 15 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Uniwell Laboratories, LLC
Fort Worth · 2025
352
3
2
1.1
1.1
UniWell Laboratories, LLC (Sovereign Rd)
Fort Worth · 2023
96
4
2
4.1
1.1
Uniwell Laboratories LLC
Fort Worth · 2021
110
0
0
0.0
1.1
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.
Oct 6, 2023, Fort Worth: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was cleaning a conveyor belt when their index finger got caught in the gears on the conveyor, resulting in a fingertip was amputation.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2)
(2) The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.
(a) General requirements. (1) The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation.
(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.
29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
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