BENCO MFG INC
200 INDUSTRIAL PARK RD., BELLE PLAINE, IA 52208
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Inspection records
Nov 21, 2006#310083365Nov 21, 2006Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#310083365$2,2501 viol.1 violation$2,250 in penalties
Inspection #310083365
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 21, 2006
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 27, 2006
- Closed
- Jan 17, 2007
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 170
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $4,500
- Penalties on Record
- $2,250
- Site Address
- 200 Industrial Park Rd., Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- 336312
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.219 Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus OSHA citation code: 19100219 C02 I | Serious | 1 | 5 | $4,500 | $2,250 | Dec 27, 2006 | - | - |
Jan 7, 2004#306680638Jan 7, 2004Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#306680638$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #306680638
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 7, 2004
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 8, 2004
- Closed
- Jan 14, 2004
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 230
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 200 Industrial Park Rd., Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- 336399
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Feb 27, 1990#104244892Feb 27, 1990Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#104244892$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #104244892
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 27, 1990
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 27, 1990
- Closed
- Feb 27, 1990
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 138
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 200 Industrial Park Rd., Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Sep 16, 1987#104199526Sep 16, 1987Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#104199526$3502 viol.2 violations$350 in penalties
Inspection #104199526
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 16, 1987
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 18, 1987
- Closed
- Oct 7, 1987
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 140
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $350
- Penalties on Record
- $350
- Site Address
- West 8th Street, Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Incident Investigation Summaries
Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.
Employee injures finger in deburring machine
Employee's finger amputated in mechanical power press
Violations
Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses OSHA citation code: 19100217 C01 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $350 | $350 | Sep 27, 1987 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses OSHA citation code: 19100217 G | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Oct 8, 1987 | - | - |
Apr 26, 1983#17152331Apr 26, 1983Planned (H) · Complete scope, Health#17152331$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #17152331
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 26, 1983
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 28, 1983
- Closed
- Apr 28, 1983
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 105
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- West 8th St, Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Jul 21, 1982#17150350Jul 21, 1982Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#17150350$3503 viol.3 violations$350 in penalties
Inspection #17150350
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 21, 1982
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 3, 1982
- Closed
- Oct 4, 1982
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 105
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 3
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 2 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $350
- Penalties on Record
- $350
- Site Address
- W 8th St, Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Violations
Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.304 Wiring design and protection OSHA citation code: 19100304 F05 V | Serious | 1 | - | $350 | $350 | Sep 6, 1982 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1910.151 Medical Services and First Aid OSHA citation code: 19100151 C | Other | 1 | - | $0 | $0 | Sep 6, 1982 | - | - |
| 02002 | 1910.157 Portable Fire Extinguishers OSHA citation code: 19100157 G01 | Other | 1 | - | $0 | $0 | Sep 6, 1982 | - | - |
Dec 3, 1980#17191321Dec 3, 1980Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#17191321$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #17191321
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 3, 1980
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 3, 1980
- Closed
- Dec 3, 1980
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 95
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- West Eight Street, Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Follow-Up Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a follow-up inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Follow-up inspections are used by OSHA after earlier enforcement activity and can be used to check later compliance status.
Oct 2, 1980#17191271Oct 2, 1980Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#17191271$1606 viol.6 violations$160 in penalties
Inspection #17191271
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 2, 1980
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 2, 1980
- Closed
- Dec 3, 1980
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 107
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 6
- Violation Types
- 3 serious, 3 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $160
- Penalties on Record
- $160
- Site Address
- Po Box 38, Belle Plaine, IA 52208
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Violations
Violation list (6 of 6 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001A | 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses OSHA citation code: 19100217 B14 II | Serious | 19 | - | $160 | $160 | Nov 17, 1980 | - | - |
| 01001B | 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses OSHA citation code: 19100217 C05 I | Serious | 19 | - | $0 | $0 | Nov 17, 1980 | - | - |
| 01001C | 1910.217 Mechanical Power Presses OSHA citation code: 19100217 D09 IV | Serious | 19 | - | $0 | $0 | Nov 17, 1980 | - | - |
| 02001A | 1910.106 OSHA citation code: 19100106 F06 | Other | 1 | - | $0 | $0 | Oct 28, 1980 | - | - |
| 02001B | 1910.106 OSHA citation code: 19100106 G03 IVD | Other | 1 | - | $0 | $0 | Oct 28, 1980 | - | - |
| 02002 | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 K01 | Other | 2 | - | $0 | $0 | Oct 28, 1980 | - | - |
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
About these records
A company page groups inspections with the same normalized employer name, city and state; it is not a legal-entity identifier (how pages are grouped).
This page displays public OSHA enforcement data. Status text follows the DOL inspection record first and may include citation-level context when the inspection feed and citation records are out of sync. Penalty amounts shown reflect the latest penalty amounts on record in the DOL database and may differ from initial assessments or final amounts. This is not an official OSHA resource.
OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.
OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.
Understanding These Penalties
The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.
8 inspections, 1980 to 2006. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
Source: DOL OSHA enforcement data (inspections and violations), linked via activity_nr (exact government key).
Penalty changes: Amounts shown reflect what OSHA's enforcement record publishes. The reason for any change is not stated unless OSHA's record explicitly says so.
Short cases: When a case closed soon after it opened, the closed marker is drawn slightly to the right so both markers stay visible. Each row's card shows the exact dates.