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Wheaton-Dumont Coop Elevator: OSHA inspections and violations

Tintah, Minnesota · Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 424510

2inspections
1citation items
$7,000current penalties
Dec 4, 2020last inspection

Wheaton-Dumont Coop Elevator has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Minnesota, the first in 2017.

OSHA's last visit started on Dec 4, 2020 as a planned inspection, in Ortonville.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $7,000 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Wheaton-Dumont Coop Elevator averages $7,000 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Wheaton-Dumont Coop Elevator: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2020
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345079677 OPENED DEC 4, 2020Closed

Planned · Partial · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Mar 22, 2021

1039 Main Street, Ortonville, MN 56278 · Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i) · Fall protection in general industry
Serious$7,000$7,000Mar 10, 2021Final

Inspection 342764370 OPENED OCT 6, 2017Closed

Unprogrammed related · Partial · Safety · 5 employees at the site · Closed Mar 27, 2018

206 250th Ave, Tintah, MN 56583 · Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Oct 5, 2017 (fatal): Employee falls from grain elevator platform and is killed

At 2:49 p.m. on October 5, 2017, an employee was working on the top of a grain elevator. The employee fell 125 feet from a raised platform and was killed.

No citations from this inspection.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.28 · Fall protection in general industry

29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i)

(b) Protection from fall hazards—(1) Unprotected sides and edges. (i) Except as provided elsewhere in this section, the employer must ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet (1.2 m) or more above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of the following:

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