Dayton, Ohio · General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload · NAICS 484122
6inspections
5citation items
$9,743current penalties
Feb 6, 2017last inspection
OSHA has inspected YRC Inc. 6 times in Ohio since 2009.
The latest one began on Feb 6, 2017 on a referral, in Copley.
Those inspections ended with 5 citation items: 3 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $13,743 and now stand at $9,743, 29% lower after settlements or reviews.
Electrical equipment, general requirements comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.303.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for transportation and warehousing employers since 2015 is $2,412, and YRC Inc. averages $7,243 (1 cited inspection).
YRC Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Ohio · latest 90 days of OSHA records
275employers cited
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Incident on Jan 29, 2017: Dockworker falls from freight and is injured
At 8:30 a.m. on January 29, 2017, a dockworker was assisting a forklift operator load freight inside a semi-trailer. As the they were loading freight into a trailer the bands holding the freight to the pallet broke and the freight fell. The falling freight struck the dockworker causing injuries to the head and fractured the employee's right ankle. The dockworker was hospitalized for two days.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Copley site logged 33 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 568 workers: 6.8 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 967 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
211 Akron
Copley · 2016
568
33
14
6.8
3.6
218 Cleveland
Richfield · 2016
285
17
13
6.7
3.6
216 Cincinnati
Cincinnati · 2016
165
5
3
5.0
3.6
243 Dayton
Dayton · 2016
30
3
2
9.9
3.6
G91 Cincinnati Garage
Cincinnati · 2016
23
0
0
0.0
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. 2 reports on file.
Feb 9, 2017, Copley: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was operating a skid pusher to push freight into a trailer while he pulled the door down. The door came down fast and caught his hand between the door latch and the edge of the skid pusher, amputating a fingertip and causing a fracture.
(g) Safety data sheets. (1) Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.
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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.
