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Valley Metals: OSHA inspections and violations

Junction City, Kansas · Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423930

1inspections
8citation items
$4,800current penalties
Aug 1, 2019last inspection

Valley Metals has one OSHA inspection on record in Kansas.

OSHA opened it on Aug 1, 2019 on a referral, in Junction City.

From that inspection OSHA issued 8 citation items: 8 serious.

OSHA proposed $22,733 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $4,800, down 79%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.1200, hazard communication (3 items).

For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Valley Metals averages $4,800 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Valley Metals: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344199245 OPENED AUG 1, 2019Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 2 employees at the site · Closed Jul 15, 2021

2413 S. Milford Lake Rd, Junction City, KS 66441 · Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jul 31, 2019: Employee sustains severe burns after explosion

At 4:15 pm on July 31, 2019, an employee was using a welding torch to cut apart a salvaged combine. The heat of the welding operations caused gasoline fumes from the salvaged combine gas tank to explode. The employee was hospitalized to treat severe burns to one side of his body.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.219(d)(1) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$2,273$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.219(e)(1)(i) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$0$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.253(b)(4)(i) · Gas welding and cutting
 Serious$2,842$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(ii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$2,842$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(iii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$2,842$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$3,978$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
 Serious$3,978$600Nov 8, 2019Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$3,978$600Nov 8, 2019Final

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.

Jul 31, 2019, Junction City: Hospitalization · heat (thermal) burns, unspecified · leg(s), unspecified

An employee was working on a combine truck trying to get a part loose. The employee was using a blow torch when it exploded. The employee was hospitalized with severe burns, especially on the right leg, and smoke inhalation.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(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.)

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts

29 CFR 1910.253 · Gas welding and cutting

29 CFR 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

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