KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
2111 E HAWTHORNE RD / MEAD WORKS, MEAD, WA 99021
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Inspection records
Nov 2, 2000#302221684Nov 2, 2000Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#302221684$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #302221684
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 2, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 16, 2000
- Closed
- Nov 16, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 600
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Aug 16, 2000#303241822Aug 16, 2000Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#303241822$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #303241822
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 16, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 16, 2000
- Closed
- Aug 16, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 753
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
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.
Mar 24, 2000#303303028Mar 24, 2000Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#303303028$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #303303028
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 24, 2000
- Closing Conference Date
- May 4, 2000
- Closed
- May 4, 2000
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 7,250
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Feb 24, 1999#115170961Feb 24, 1999Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#115170961$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #115170961
Dates
- Opened
- Feb 24, 1999
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 3, 1999
- Closed
- Mar 3, 1999
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
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Oct 30, 1998#115174922Oct 30, 1998Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#115174922$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #115174922
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 30, 1998
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 9, 1998
- Closed
- Dec 9, 1998
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint, 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Aug 20, 1998#300902822Aug 20, 1998Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#300902822$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #300902822
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 20, 1998
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 30, 1998
- Closed
- May 25, 1999
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 250
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0620541501 | Other | 1 | 2 | $0 | $0 | Sep 30, 1998 | - | - |
Nov 18, 1997#115173395Nov 18, 1997Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#115173395$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #115173395
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 18, 1997
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 12, 1998
- Contested
- May 5, 1998
- Final Order
- Jun 4, 1998
- Closed
- Aug 14, 1998
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,100
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $1,050
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 0240004001 OSHA citation code: 0240004001 A 07 | Other | 1 | 14 | $1,050 | $0 | Aug 3, 1998 | May 5, 1998 | Jun 4, 1998 |
Oct 27, 1997#115232936Oct 27, 1997FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#115232936$7,0001 viol.1 violation$7,000 in penalties
Inspection #115232936
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 27, 1997
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 6, 1998
- Contested
- Apr 22, 1998
- Final Order
- May 30, 2002
- Closed
- Feb 9, 2004
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,100
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $7,000
- Penalties on Record
- $7,000
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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 between skid loader bucket and frame
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01005 | 0241100506 OSHA citation code: 0241100506 A 03 | Serious | 1 | 12 | $7,000 | $7,000 | May 25, 2000 | Apr 22, 1998 | May 30, 2002 |
May 13, 1997#115233421May 13, 1997Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#115233421$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #115233421
Dates
- Opened
- May 13, 1997
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 29, 1997
- Closed
- Jul 29, 1997
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 1,100
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
Nov 12, 1996#115233082Nov 12, 1996Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#115233082$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #115233082
Dates
- Opened
- Nov 12, 1996
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 26, 1996
- Closed
- Nov 26, 1996
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 251
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 2111 E Hawthorne Rd, Mead, WA 99021
- 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.
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 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.
19 inspections, 1988 to 2000. 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.