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VBH Technologies: OSHA inspections and violations

Cincinnati, Ohio · Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing · NAICS 326220

1inspections
5citation items
$14,503current penalties
Jul 18, 2022last inspection

OSHA has inspected VBH Technologies once in Ohio.

The inspection began on Jul 18, 2022 on a referral, in Cincinnati.

That inspection ended with 5 citation items: 3 serious and 2 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $22,376 and now stand at $14,503, 35% lower after settlements or reviews.

Lockout/tagout comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.147.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and VBH Technologies averages $14,503 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

VBH Technologies: OSHA citation items per year, 2022 to 2022
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346083348 OPENED JUL 18, 2022Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 18 employees at the site · Closed Apr 14, 2023

6615 Corporate Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45242 · Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$5,801$5,801Aug 17, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.147(d) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$5,801$0Aug 17, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
 Serious$5,801$5,801Aug 17, 2022Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.4(a) · Recording criteria
 Other-than-serious$829$829Aug 17, 2022Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
 Other-than-serious$4,144$2,072Aug 17, 2022Final

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 6, 2022, Cincinnati: Amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified

An employee was using a hose-cutting machine. The machine cut the employee's right index finger, causing a partial amputation.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2)

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.

29 CFR 1904.4 · Recording criteria

29 CFR 1904.4(a)

(a) Basic requirement. Each employer required by this part to keep records of fatalities, injuries, and illnesses must record each fatality, injury and illness that:

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(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 1910.212 · Machine guarding

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