OSHA has inspected Versatile Processing Group Incorporated 3 times in Indiana since 2011.
The latest one began on Nov 23, 2018 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Nabb.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 3 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $8,850 and now stand at $7,502, 15% lower after settlements or reviews.
Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.178.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,427, and Versatile Processing Group Incorporated averages $3,751 (2 cited inspections).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Versatile Processing Group Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Inspection 343632238 OPENED NOV 23, 2018Closed
Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 40 employees at the site · Closed Aug 6, 2019
3478 West Marble Hill Road, Nabb, IN 47147 · Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Nov 21, 2018 (fatal): Employee is killed when forklift tips over while turning
At 5:23 p.m. on November 21st, 2018, Employee #1 was driving a forklift and bringing pallets of material and dumping the material beside a crane. During this work Employee #1 went around a corner with the forks (minus a load) raised 8 to 10 feet whereupon the forklift tipped over onto its side. Employee #1 was not wearing the seatbelt and was thrown from the seat and struck by the forklift overhead protection. Employee #1 sustained fatal head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 29 CFR 22.8(1)(1)(SEC2) |
Serious | $5,000 | $5,000 | Jan 30, 2019 | Final |
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2019, the Nabb site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 44 workers: 2.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.3 for its industry.
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.
