OSHA has inspected Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc. 3 times in Illinois since 2008.
The latest one began on Oct 24, 2018 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Sauk Village.
Those inspections ended with 2 citation items: 1 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $26,520 and still stand at $26,520.
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 Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc. averages $26,520 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc. 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 Oct 24, 2018 (fatal): Employee is pinned between machine sections, later dies
At 11:00 a.m. on October 24, 2018, an employee was part of a crew of three employees troubleshooting an issue with a thermoformer and was making adjustments to a vacuum pump between two large sections of the machine. The employee was caught and pinned between the two sections and was found unresponsive by coworkers before being transported to a local hospital, where he later died.
Incident on Nov 14, 2017: Employee is caught between a bar and a tote, fracturing his
At 3:45 p.m. on November 14, 2017, an employee was feeding a roll of material into and out of the machine. The employee saw the roller bar in the up position when it should have been in the down position, so he pushed the button to let the roller bar down. However, he was in the way of the roller bar and it pinned him between it and the tote, fracturing his sternum.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 312590656 OPENED OCT 14, 2008Closed
Complaint · Partial · Health · 207 employees at the site · Closed Oct 16, 2008
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Sauk Village site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 375 workers: 1.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 127 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Winpak Portion Packaging
Sauk Village · 2025
375
4
2
1.2
2.6
WPP-SCH
South Chicago Heights · 2023
175
7
2
4.2
2.6
Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc, Sauk Village, IL
Sauk Village · 2020
266
0
0
0.0
2.6
Winpak Portion Packaging Suak Village
Sauk Village · 2018
269
2
1
0.7
2.6
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.
At about 9:00 a.m. on December 27, 2021, an employee was feeding a scrap sheet into a grinder when their right hand was caught between a bar (which kept tension on the sheet) and the steel frame of the machine guarding. The employee suffered bruising to the hand and was hospitalized.
Nov 16, 2018, Sauk Village: Hospitalization · traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified · nonclassifiable
An employee fell 8 to 10 feet from a shed while inspecting shingles on its roof.
Nov 14, 2017, South Chicago Heights: Hospitalization · fractures · chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
An employee went to the south side of a machine to grab an extruded plastic sheet and realized the roller assembly was in the up position instead of down. While the assembly was lowering, the employee leaned forward over the tote bin. The roller assembly continued and made contact with the employee's back, causing the employee's torso to be wedged between the roller assembly and tote bin…
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(C) Where lockout is used for energy control, the periodic inspection shall include a review, between the inspector and each authorized employee, of that employee's responsibilities under the energy control procedure being inspected.
29 CFR 1910.147(d)
(d) Application of control. The established procedures for the application of energy control (the lockout or tagout procedures) shall cover the following elements and actions and shall be done in the following sequence:
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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.
