BLANDIN PAPER COMPANY
115 SOUTHWEST FIRST STREET, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
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Inspection records
Oct 7, 2004#307943456Oct 7, 2004Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#307943456$4,53615 viol.15 violations$4,536 in penalties
Inspection #307943456
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 7, 2004
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 28, 2004
- Contested
- Dec 9, 2004
- Closed
- Nov 13, 2007
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 500
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 15
- Violation Types
- 11 serious, 4 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $10,800
- Penalties on Record
- $4,536
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- 322121 Paper (except Newsprint) Mills
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.
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Dec 9, 2004. Final orders are recorded through Nov 21, 2005. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (5 of 15 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001A | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 C01 | Serious | 4 | 10 | $1,800 | $756 | Dec 12, 2005 | Dec 9, 2004 | Nov 20, 2005 |
| 01001B | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 C03 | Serious | 4 | 10 | $0 | $0 | Dec 21, 2004 | - | - |
| 01002 | 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding) OSHA citation code: 19100212 A01 | Serious | 3 | 10 | $1,800 | $756 | Dec 12, 2005 | Dec 9, 2004 | Nov 20, 2005 |
| 01003 | 1910.219 Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus OSHA citation code: 19100219 C02 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $900 | $378 | Dec 21, 2004 | Dec 9, 2004 | Nov 20, 2005 |
| 01004 | 1910.219 Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus OSHA citation code: 19100219 M01 | Serious | 2 | 10 | $900 | $378 | Nov 26, 2004 | Dec 9, 2004 | Nov 20, 2005 |
Showing the 5 violations listed first by citation identifier. This inspection has 15 total violations documented in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement database. The complete violation list is available at enforcedata.dol.gov.
Oct 7, 2004#307943332Oct 7, 2004Planned (H) · Complete scope, Health#307943332$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #307943332
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 7, 2004
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 28, 2004
- Closed
- Oct 28, 2004
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 500
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- 322121 Paper (except Newsprint) Mills
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 12, 2002#305873168Sep 12, 2002Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#305873168$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #305873168
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 12, 2002
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 1, 2002
- Closed
- Nov 1, 2002
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 850
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
Mar 30, 2001#303886642Mar 30, 2001Planned (H) · Partial scope, Safety#303886642$10,5004 viol.4 violations$10,500 in penalties
Inspection #303886642
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 30, 2001
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 10, 2001
- Contested
- Jun 7, 2001
- Closed
- Feb 8, 2002
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 875
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 4
- Violation Types
- 4 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $10,500
- Penalties on Record
- $10,500
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- 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.
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Jun 7, 2001. Final orders are recorded through Jan 18, 2002. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (4 of 4 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 182065302 | Serious | 71 | 70 | $3,500 | $3,500 | Jun 15, 2001 | - | - |
| 01002A | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C01 | Serious | 1 | 2 | $3,500 | $3,500 | Jun 15, 2001 | Jun 7, 2001 | Jan 18, 2002 |
| 01002B | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C07 I | Serious | 1 | 2 | $0 | $0 | Jun 15, 2001 | - | - |
| 01003 | 5205.710 | Serious | 16 | 71 | $3,500 | $3,500 | May 23, 2001 | - | - |
Nov 13, 2000#303886592Nov 13, 2000FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#303886592$35,5007 viol.7 violations$35,500 in penalties
Inspection #303886592
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 13, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 15, 2000
- Closed
- Apr 18, 2001
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 875
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 7
- Violation Types
- 6 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $35,500
- Penalties on Record
- $35,500
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- 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 killed when caught between truck and machine
Violations
Violation list (5 of 7 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001A | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C04 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $25,000 | $25,000 | Mar 2, 2001 | - | - |
| 01001B | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C07 IIIA | Serious | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Mar 2, 2001 | - | - |
| 01002A | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 L04 IID | Serious | 1 | 20 | $3,500 | $3,500 | Mar 27, 2001 | - | - |
| 01002B | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 L04 IIE | Serious | 2 | 20 | $0 | $0 | Mar 27, 2001 | - | - |
| 01003 | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 P01 | Serious | 1 | 10 | $3,500 | $3,500 | Mar 2, 2001 | - | - |
Showing the 5 violations listed first by citation identifier. This inspection has 7 total violations documented in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement database. The complete violation list is available at enforcedata.dol.gov.
Feb 16, 1999#129450029Feb 16, 1999Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#129450029$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #129450029
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 16, 1999
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 16, 1999
- Closed
- Feb 16, 1999
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 970
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
Jun 23, 1995#120404355Jun 23, 1995Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Safety#120404355$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #120404355
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 23, 1995
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 30, 1995
- Closed
- Sep 27, 1995
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,000
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Unprogrammed Related Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an unprogrammed related inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Jun 15, 1993#120392485Jun 15, 1993Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Health#120392485$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #120392485
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 15, 1993
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 15, 1993
- Closed
- Jun 25, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,085
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- 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.
Aug 13, 1992#111674883Aug 13, 1992Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#111674883$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111674883
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 13, 1992
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 13, 1992
- Closed
- Aug 24, 1992
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,085
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- 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.
Feb 25, 1992#111694378Feb 25, 1992Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#111694378$2,5208 viol.8 violations$2,520 in penalties
Inspection #111694378
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 25, 1992
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 4, 1992
- Contested
- May 5, 1992
- Closed
- Feb 18, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,085
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 8
- Violation Types
- 2 serious, 6 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $2,520
- Penalties on Record
- $2,520
- Site Address
- 115 Sw 1st St, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on May 5, 1992. Final orders are recorded through Aug 20, 1992. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (5 of 8 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 C03 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $1,740 | $1,740 | May 17, 1992 | - | - |
| 01002 | 1910.219 Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus OSHA citation code: 19100219 D01 | Serious | 2 | 1 | $420 | $420 | May 17, 1992 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1910.22 Walking-Working Surfaces - General Requirements OSHA citation code: 19100022 C | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | May 5, 1992 | - | - |
| 02002 | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 E06 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Aug 1, 1992 | May 5, 1992 | Aug 20, 1992 |
| 02003 | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 M12 II | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | May 31, 1992 | - | - |
Showing the 5 violations listed first by citation identifier. This inspection has 8 total violations documented in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement database. The complete violation list is available at enforcedata.dol.gov.
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.
24 inspections, 1973 to 2004. 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.