OSHA has inspected Warfield Limited 33 times in Oregon since 1989.
The latest one began on Sep 23, 2019 after an accident, in Siletz.
Those inspections ended with 29 citation items: 19 serious and 10 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $23,195 and now stand at $19,858, 14% lower after settlements or reviews.
comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 7020.2280.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for farming, fishing and forestry employers since 2015 is $1,440, and Warfield Limited averages $3,580 (5 cited inspections).
Warfield Limited also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Oregon · latest 90 days of OSHA records
384employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
Get notified the morning OSHA posts each new citation in Oregon: the employer, the site address, the rules broken and the penalty.
Incident on Sep 17, 2019: Employee suffers hand injuries when crushed by logging choke
At 9:00 a.m. on September 17, 2019, an employee was working in logging operations when his hand was crushed by a choker. The employee sustained bruising and fractures to the hand and was hospitalized.
Citation and rule
Type
Proposed
Current
Issued
Status
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR OAR 437-007-0700(1)
Serious
$800
$800
Feb 26, 2020
Final
Inspection 343775466 OPENED FEB 6, 2019Closed
Planned · Partial · Safety · 25 employees at the site · Closed Mar 22, 2019
Incident on Jun 22, 2018: Employee's finger is partially amputated while releasing cho
At 2:30 p.m. on June 22, 2018, an employee was releasing chokers when one of his fingers became caught in the rigging. As a result, the finger was partially amputated.
Citation and rule
Type
Proposed
Current
Issued
Status
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR OAR 437-007-0910(2)(A)
Serious
$1,400
$1,400
Oct 30, 2018
Final
Inspection 342257912 OPENED APR 12, 2017Closed
Accident · Partial · Safety · 11 employees at the site · Closed Feb 1, 2018
Incident on May 9, 2013: Employee's finger is caught between brakes, later amputated
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on May 09, 2013, Employee #1 was changing out brake s hoes on an (Acme Model Number 28) motorized carriage. The motor on the carriage was running at that time. A coworker was working on the radio control system for the Acme carriage at the same time and switched the control button to the off p osition. This caused the skyline clamp that the employee was working on to close . Employee #1's right hand was caught between the two brake shoes and three of h is fingers were crushed. The employee was taken to an area hospital, where his f ingers were amputated. Employee #1 was later released.
Incident on Nov 17, 2003: Employee's foot and ankle run over by equipment
On November 17, 2003, Employee #1 was attempting to buck some limbs off of a log so he could get back to the yarder, when the dangle-head processor backed over his foot and ankle, breaking multiple bones. He was hospitalized.
Incident on Oct 28, 1998: Truck driver is injured when truck runs off road
On October 28, 1998, an employee was driving a truck on Highway 227 near Siletz when he approached an area where a piece of equipment was being off-loaded from a trailer on to the road. The employee lost control of the truck, left the road and crashed. The employee was hospitalized and treated for unspecified injuries.
Incident on May 2, 1995: Employee's hand injured when struck by log
Employee #1 was setting chokers on a steep hillside as part of a tree felling op eration. They were logging with a slack pulling carriage, harvesting alder that averaged 9 in. in diameter at the butt and 60 ft in length. They sent a turn of tree-length alder to the landing. When it arrived, there was a choker with a bon us, where the end of one of the logs was longer than the other, preventing the y arder engineer from pulling the logs up as far as he would have liked. As he att empted to land the logs by slacking the line down, slack in the chokers allowed several of the logs to slip out and slide back down the hill. The yarder enginee r sounded the signal to warn the rigging crew that a log was coming down the hil l. One of the logs continued to slide toward the rigging crew, changing directio n several times. As Employee #1 tried to get out of the way, he slipped. The log slid across his left hand, severely injuring it.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Toledo site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 8 workers: 30.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.9 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Warfield Limited
Toledo · 2025
8
2
0
30.0
3.9
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(ii) The procedures shall clearly and specifically outline the scope, purpose, authorization, rules, and techniques to be utilized for the control of hazardous energy, and the means to enforce compliance including, but not limited to, the following:
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