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THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY
$19,910
penalties
3
viol.
2
insp.

THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY

2121 NEW WORLD DRIVE, COLUMBUS, OH 43219NAICS 325510 Paint and Coating Manufacturing

Inspections
2
Aug 2017 to May 2025 · 2 safety, 0 health
Violations
3
across 2 inspections
Penalties on record
$19,910
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 2Willful 0Repeat 0Other 1

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Inspection records

May 28, 2025Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#348271016$7,2351 viol.

Inspection #348271016

Dates

Opened
May 28, 2025
Closing Conference Date
May 28, 2025
Final Order
Nov 13, 2025
Closed
Nov 13, 2025

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
160
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
1
Violation Types
1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$7,235
Penalties on Record
$7,235
Site Address
2121 New World Drive, Columbus, OH 43207
Industry
325510 Paint and Coating 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.

Violations

Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010011910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C06 I
Other18$7,235$7,235-Nov 13, 2025
Aug 15, 2017Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#342550498$12,6752 viol.

Inspection #342550498

Dates

Opened
Aug 15, 2017
Closing Conference Date
Aug 15, 2017
Final Order
Oct 16, 2017
Closed
Nov 22, 2017

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
8
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
2
Violation Types
2 serious
Initial Penalties
$25,350
Penalties on Record
$12,675
Site Address
1570 Old Leonard Avenue, Columbus, OH 43219
Industry
325510 Paint and Coating 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.

Aug 9, 2017

Employee turns on mixer during cleaning and amputates finger

Event: Caught In or Between

Violations

Violation list (2 of 2 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
01001A1910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C04 I
Serious13$12,675$12,675Oct 25, 2017-Oct 16, 2017
01001B1910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 F01
Serious13$12,675$0Oct 25, 2017-Oct 16, 2017
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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.

Standards cited

1910.147Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)3 citations · $19,910

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer1.5
Industry average2.8
Penalties per inspection
This employer$9,955
Industry average$3,850

Chemical Manufacturing, 12,102 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: paint and coating manufacturing reported 2.6 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 16.6%; NAICS 32551 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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