JOHN DEERE FOUNDRY
2000 WESTFIELD AVENUE, BLDG. Z-504, WATERLOO, IA 50704
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Inspection records
Sep 4, 2025#348484619Sep 4, 2025Complaint (B) · Complete scope, Safety#348484619$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #348484619
Dates
- Opened
- Sep 4, 2025
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 22, 2025
- Closed
- Nov 24, 2025
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 450
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 331513 Steel Foundries (except Investment)
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 11, 2024#347548414Jun 11, 2024Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#347548414$13,0001 viol.1 violation$13,000 in penalties
Inspection #347548414
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 11, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 16, 2024
- Final Order
- Nov 15, 2024
- Closed
- Dec 16, 2024
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 550
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $13,394
- Penalties on Record
- $13,000
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 331513 Steel Foundries (except Investment)
Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.28 Duty to Have Fall Protection OSHA citation code: 19100028 B03 IV | Serious | 1 | 3 | $13,394 | $13,000 | - | Nov 15, 2024 |
Mar 1, 2022#345815021Mar 1, 2022Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#345815021$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #345815021
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 1, 2022
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 1, 2022
- Closed
- May 10, 2022
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 500
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.
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 amputates fingertip
Feb 28, 2022#345812671Feb 28, 2022Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Safety#345812671$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #345812671
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 28, 2022
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 1, 2022
- Closed
- May 9, 2022
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
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Dec 13, 2021#345695019Dec 13, 2021Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#345695019$10,5331 viol.1 violation$10,533 in penalties
Inspection #345695019
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 13, 2021
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 9, 2022
- Final Order
- Apr 11, 2022
- Closed
- Apr 25, 2022
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 550
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $10,533
- Penalties on Record
- $10,533
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.22 Walking-Working Surfaces - General Requirements OSHA citation code: 19100022 D02 | Other | 1 | 5 | $10,533 | $10,533 | - | Apr 11, 2022 |
Jun 16, 2021#345370266Jun 16, 2021Referral (C) · Partial scope, Health#345370266$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #345370266
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 16, 2021
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 23, 2021
- Closed
- Jul 27, 2021
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 500
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.
Oct 17, 2016#342002649Oct 17, 2016Unprogrammed Related (G) · Partial scope, Health#342002649$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #342002649
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 17, 2016
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 17, 2016
- Closed
- Jan 31, 2017
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 550
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- John Deere Foundry 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Apr 28, 2016#341439545Apr 28, 2016Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#341439545$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #341439545
Dates
- Opened
- Apr 28, 2016
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 28, 2016
- Closed
- Jun 21, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 550
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Jul 29, 2014#317799799Jul 29, 2014Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#317799799$2,6252 viol.2 violations$2,625 in penalties
Inspection #317799799
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 29, 2014
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 29, 2014
- Closed
- Dec 2, 2014
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 700
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $3,250
- Penalties on Record
- $2,625
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Violations
Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.178 Powered Industrial Trucks OSHA citation code: 19100178 M01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $1,625 | $1,625 | Nov 12, 2014 | - | - |
| 01002 | 1910.219 Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus OSHA citation code: 19100219 C04 II | Other | 1 | 3 | $1,625 | $1,000 | Nov 12, 2014 | - | - |
Oct 1, 2008#312624257Oct 1, 2008Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#312624257$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #312624257
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 1, 2008
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 10, 2008
- Closed
- Nov 12, 2008
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2000 Westfield Avenue, Bldg. Z-504, Waterloo, IA 50704
- Industry
- 333111 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
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.
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
About these records
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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.
15 inspections, 1988 to 2025. 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.