L.H. SOWLES CO.
1216 S.W 2ND ST (ST MARY'S POWER PLANT), ROCHESTER, MN 55902
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Inspection records
Oct 12, 1995#120409495Oct 12, 1995Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#120409495$4201 viol.1 violation$420 in penalties
Inspection #120409495
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 12, 1995
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 12, 1995
- Closed
- Dec 13, 1995
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 7
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $600
- Penalties on Record
- $420
- Site Address
- 1216 S.w. 2nd St. (st. Mary's Hospital Ramp), Rochester, MN 55902
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.404 Electrical - Wiring Design and Protection (Construction) OSHA citation code: 19260404 B01 II | Serious | 1 | 1 | $600 | $420 | Nov 12, 1995 | - | - |
Feb 27, 1992#111643136Feb 27, 1992Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#111643136$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111643136
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 27, 1992
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 28, 1992
- Closed
- Apr 24, 1992
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 11
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 101-151 4th St S.e. (olmsted County Govt. Ctr), Rochester, MN 55904
- 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.
Jan 28, 1992#111689691Jan 28, 1992Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#111689691$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111689691
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 28, 1992
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 28, 1992
- Closed
- Apr 13, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 9
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1216 S.w 2nd St (st Mary's Power Plant), Rochester, MN 55902
- 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.
Dec 13, 1990#111663092Dec 13, 1990Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#111663092$1921 viol.1 violation$192 in penalties
Inspection #111663092
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 13, 1990
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 13, 1990
- Contested
- Jan 29, 1991
- Final Order
- May 22, 1991
- Closed
- May 31, 1991
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 5
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $192
- Penalties on Record
- $192
- Site Address
- 501 - 37th St. Nw., Rochester, MN 55901
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.701 Concrete and Masonry Construction - General Requirements OSHA citation code: 19260701 B | Serious | 1 | 3 | $192 | $192 | Jan 11, 1991 | Jan 29, 1991 | May 22, 1991 |
Jan 26, 1989#107761124Jan 26, 1989Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#107761124$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #107761124
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 26, 1989
- Closing Conference Date
- Jan 26, 1989
- Closed
- Mar 9, 1989
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 9
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 1216 S.w. 2nd St. (st. Mary's Hospital Ramp), Rochester, MN 55902
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.251 Rigging Equipment for Material Handling OSHA citation code: 19260251 A01 | Other | 1 | 2 | $0 | $0 | Mar 9, 1989 | - | - |
Dec 27, 1988#107816431Dec 27, 1988Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#107816431$1762 viol.2 violations$176 in penalties
Inspection #107816431
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 27, 1988
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 27, 1988
- Contested
- Feb 16, 1989
- Closed
- Sep 11, 1989
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 3
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 1 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $247
- Penalties on Record
- $176
- Site Address
- 1300 N.w. 40th St., Rochester, MN 55901
- 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 Feb 16, 1989. Final orders are recorded through Sep 6, 1989. Penalty changes shown on this page reflect the latest amounts published in OSHA's enforcement data.
Violations
Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.28 Personal Protective Equipment OSHA citation code: 19260028 A | Serious | 1 | 1 | $247 | $176 | Jan 23, 1989 | Feb 16, 1989 | Sep 6, 1989 |
| 02001 | 1926.351 Arc Welding and Cutting OSHA citation code: 19260351 B03 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Jan 23, 1989 | - | - |
Jun 28, 1988#107729287Jun 28, 1988Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#107729287$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #107729287
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 28, 1988
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 29, 1988
- Closed
- Jul 22, 1988
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 4
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2nd St. S.w., (harold W. Siebon Bldg.), Rochester, MN 55902
- 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 (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1926.450 Scaffolding - Scope, Application, and Definitions OSHA citation code: 19260450 A 2 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Jul 22, 1988 | - | - |
Aug 18, 1987#104531645Aug 18, 1987Accident (A) · Partial scope, Safety#104531645$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #104531645
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 18, 1987
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 18, 1987
- Closed
- Sep 2, 1987
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Mayo Education Building, Rochester, MN 55902
- 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 injured in fall onto steel beam support
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, 1987 to 1995. 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.