Maybrook, New York · General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload · NAICS 484122
10inspections
8citation items
$38,630current penalties
May 10, 2024last inspection
OSHA has inspected YRC Inc. 10 times in New York since 2011.
The latest one began on May 10, 2024 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Maybrook; the case is still open.
Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 2 serious and 6 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $39,074 and now stand at $38,630, 1% lower after settlements or reviews.
Electrical wiring methods comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.305.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $2,408, and YRC Inc. averages $9,477 (3 cited inspections).
3 inspections on this page followed a fatal incident.
YRC Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on May 9, 2024 (fatal): Employee is killed when crushed by truck
At 9:15 a.m. on May 9, 2024, Employee #1 was walking between a backing truck and a box truck. The employee was crushed between the two vehicles, resulting in traumatic injuries. Emergency services were called to the scene; however, the employee was pronounced dead due to the injuries sustained from the incident.
Citation and rule
Type
Proposed
Current
Issued
Status
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1904.41(a)(1)(ii) · Electronic submission of Employer Identification Number (EIN) and injury and illness records to OSHA
Other-than-serious
$2,304
$2,304
Aug 26, 2024
Contested
Inspection 344964978 OPENED OCT 8, 2020Closed
Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Apr 5, 2021
Incident on Oct 5, 2020 (fatal): Employee is killed in fall from truck
At 9:45 a.m. on October 5, 2020, an employee was making a delivery when he went to open the trailer door. He had his left foot on the ICC bumper, his right foot on the trailer frame, left hand on the door latch and the right hand on the door handle. As the employee released the door latch, his hand slipped off of the latch and he lost his balance. The employee fell off of the trailer backwards onto his feet stumbling backwards then onto his buttocks and then finally hitting the back of his head on the pavement. The employee died of head trauma.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343626842 OPENED NOV 29, 2018Closed
Planned · Partial · Safety · 30 employees at the site · Closed Dec 4, 2018
Incident on Jul 10, 2018 (fatal): Employee is struck and killed while unloading livestock pane
At 12:00 p.m. on July 10, 2018, Employee #1 was unloading livestock panels from the back of a trailer on a customer's farm. The livestock panels shifted, and the employee was crushed and killed.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Maybrook site logged 36 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 367 workers: 10.3 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 1,047 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
123 Maybrook
Maybrook · 2016
367
36
19
10.3
3.6
187 Brooklyn
Brooklyn · 2016
126
14
10
9.6
3.6
104 Albany
Glenmont · 2016
50
3
1
6.5
3.6
132 Long Island
Plainview · 2016
53
5
2
10.9
3.6
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
An employee fell off the back of a work vehicle's bumper resulting in a head injury.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.41 · Electronic submission of Employer Identification Number (EIN) and injury and illness records to OSHA
29 CFR 1904.41(a)(1)(ii)
(ii) If your establishment had 250 or more employees at any time during the previous calendar year, and this part requires your establishment to keep records, then you must electronically submit information from OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses to OSHA or OSHA's designee. You must submit the information once a year, no later than the date listed in paragraph (c) of this section of the year after the calendar year covered by the form.
29 CFR 1910.110 · Storage and handling of liquefied petroleum gases
29 CFR 1910.110(b)(6)(vi)
(vi) Readily ignitible material such as weeds and long dry grass shall be removed within 10 feet of any container.
(iv) Overcurrent devices shall be readily accessible to each employee or authorized building management personnel. These overcurrent devices may not be located where they will be exposed to physical damage or in the vicinity of easily ignitable material.
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.
