NORTHWOODS LOG HOMES, INC.
COUNTY HWYS 39 AND 93, LAPORTE, MN 56461
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Inspection records
May 31, 2006#310078597May 31, 2006Planned (H) · No Inspection scope, Safety#310078597$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #310078597
Dates
- Opened
- May 31, 2006
- Closing Conference Date
- May 31, 2006
- Closed
- May 31, 2006
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- Not recorded
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 36303 County Road #39, Laporte, MN 56461
- Industry
- 321992 Prefabricated Wood Building Manufacturing
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.
Feb 29, 2000#303298376Feb 29, 2000Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#303298376$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #303298376
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 29, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 29, 2000
- Closed
- Feb 29, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 13
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Co Rd 39, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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.
Feb 28, 1995#120454483Feb 28, 1995FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#120454483$3,4004 viol.4 violations$3,400 in penalties
Inspection #120454483
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 28, 1995
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 10, 1995
- Contested
- Jun 22, 1995
- Closed
- Oct 12, 1995
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 18
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 4
- Violation Types
- 3 serious, 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $5,400
- Penalties on Record
- $3,400
- Site Address
- Co Rd 39, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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 dies when legs severed at knees by saw blade
Enforcement Outcome
Citation contest activity appears on Jun 22, 1995. Final orders are recorded through Sep 16, 1995. 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 | 1910.147 Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) OSHA citation code: 19100147 C01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $5,000 | $3,000 | Jun 7, 1995 | Jun 22, 1995 | Sep 16, 1995 |
| 01002 | 1910.265 Sawmills OSHA citation code: 19100265 E01 V | Serious | 1 | 5 | $300 | $300 | Jul 3, 1995 | - | - |
| 01003 | 182065308 | Serious | 1 | 4 | $0 | $0 | Jun 7, 1995 | - | - |
| 02001 | 1910.151 Medical Services and First Aid OSHA citation code: 19100151 B | Other | 1 | 18 | $100 | $100 | Jun 6, 1995 | - | - |
Mar 3, 1993#111679072Mar 3, 1993Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#111679072$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111679072
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 3, 1993
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 3, 1993
- Closed
- Mar 31, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 21
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- County Hwys 39 And 93, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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.
Jun 8, 1992#111640611Jun 8, 1992Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#111640611$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111640611
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 8, 1992
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 8, 1992
- Closed
- Apr 13, 1993
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 21
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- County Hwys 39 And 93, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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.
Nov 19, 1991#111640397Nov 19, 1991Follow-Up (F) · No Inspection scope, Safety#111640397$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #111640397
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 19, 1991
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 19, 1991
- Closed
- Dec 2, 1991
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- Not recorded
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- County Hwys 39 And 93, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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.
May 9, 1990#107734899May 9, 1990Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#107734899$4,73445 viol.45 violations$4,734 in penalties
Inspection #107734899
Dates
- Opened
- May 9, 1990
- Closing Conference Date
- May 10, 1990
- Closed
- Nov 23, 1992
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 14
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 45
- Violation Types
- 16 serious, 29 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $4,734
- Penalties on Record
- $4,734
- Site Address
- County Hwys 39 And 93, Laporte, MN 56461
- 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 (7 of 45 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 5205075002 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $225 | $225 | Jul 9, 1990 | - | - |
| 01002 | 5205075002 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $171 | $171 | Jun 25, 1990 | - | - |
| 01003 | 1910.23 Ladders OSHA citation code: 19100023 C01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $171 | $171 | Jul 9, 1990 | - | - |
| 01004 | 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding) OSHA citation code: 19100212 A01 | Serious | 3 | 3 | $279 | $279 | Sep 13, 1991 | - | - |
| 01005 | 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding) OSHA citation code: 19100212 A01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $171 | $171 | Sep 10, 1990 | - | - |
| 01006 | 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding) OSHA citation code: 19100212 A03 II | Serious | 4 | 4 | $252 | $252 | Sep 13, 1991 | - | - |
| 01007 | 1910.213 Woodworking Machinery Requirements OSHA citation code: 19100213 C01 | Serious | 1 | 1 | $171 | $171 | Aug 10, 1990 | - | - |
Showing the 7 violations listed first by citation identifier. This inspection has 45 total violations documented in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement database. The complete violation list is available at enforcedata.dol.gov.
Failure to Abate Penalties5 citations, $603 in FTA penalties on record
OSHA's enforcement record shows Failure to Abate (FTA) activity recorded against 5 citations issued in this inspection. An FTA penalty is assessed during a follow-up inspection when OSHA's records indicate a previously cited hazard was not corrected by the abatement date. Each row below shows the FTA fields published on the original citation record: the follow-up inspection number, the FTA issuance date, the FTA penalty amount, and any FTA contest or final order date on record.
| Citation | FTA Inspection | FTA Issuance | FTA Penalty | FTA Contest | FTA Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01006 | #111640611 | Jul 9, 1992 | - | Jul 30, 1992 | Nov 23, 1992 |
Showing the 1 FTA rows present in the first 7 citations on this inspection. OSHA's record shows 5 total citations with FTA activity for this inspection. The complete 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, violations table fields fta_insp_nr, fta_issuance_date, fta_penalty, fta_contest_date, fta_final_order_date. The FTA follow-up inspection is linked via fta_insp_nr to the inspection activity number (exact government key). When the follow-up inspection is not currently on record in SafetyRecord, the inspection number is shown without a link.
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.
7 inspections, 1990 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.
Standards cited
Industry comparison
BLS 2024 survey: prefabricated wood building manufacturing reported 7.8 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 20.0%). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source