Viking Forge Corp. has 8 OSHA inspections on record in Ohio, the first in 2003.
OSHA's last visit started on Mar 20, 2018 on a referral, in Streetsboro.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 16 citation items: 8 serious and 8 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $16,130 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $10,010, down 38%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.179, overhead and gantry cranes (3 items).
For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. Viking Forge Corp. averages $7,683 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
Viking Forge Corp. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Mar 13, 2018: Employee sustains partial fingertip amputation on a press co
At 11:30 p.m. on March 13, 2018, Employee #1 was operating the forging press, using gloves. The employee's glove started to slip off of his right hand. As he tried to re-glove, his hand pushed toward the moving conveyor belt of the forging press line, where the hot parts were coming out. He sustained a partial fingertip amputation of his right middle finger.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Streetsboro site logged 7 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 170 workers: 5.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 136 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Viking Forge LLC
Streetsboro · 2025
170
7
4
5.0
4.0
Viking Forge, LLC
Streetsboro · 2021
121
3
0
2.7
4.0
Viking Forge Corp.
Streetsboro · 2018
170
13
5
6.5
4.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
An employee was completing a tooling repair on a set of trim dies. While he was maneuvering the trim component, he slipped and his left ring finger was caught between the two die components. He suffered a severe laceration and fracture to the fingertip.
An employee was trying to catch his glove, which had slipped off his hand, when his hand was caught in a conveyor. His middle finger was partially amputated.
Aug 30, 2017, Streetsboro: Hospitalization · fractures · leg(s), unspecified
An employee's left leg was struck by a bundle of steel that rolled off a timber, causing a compound fracture.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(i) A list of the hazardous chemicals known to be present using a product identifier that is referenced on the appropriate safety data sheet (the list may be compiled for the workplace as a whole or for individual work areas); and,
(6) The basic advisory information on respirators, as presented in appendix D of this section, shall be provided by the employer in any written or oral format, to employees who wear respirators when such use is not required by this section or by the employer.
(4) Energy control procedure. (i) Procedures shall be developed, documented and utilized for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees are engaged in the activities covered by this section.
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.
