KNOUSE FOODS
421 GRANT STREET, CHAMBERSBURG, PA 17201 · NAICS 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning
Having inspection records is common for businesses in regulated industries. Data and methodology
Inspection records
Jun 10, 2019#344072491Jun 10, 2019Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#344072491$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #344072491
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 10, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Sep 25, 2019
- Closed
- Sep 25, 2019
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 200
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 421 Grant Street, Chambersburg, PA 17201
- Industry
- 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning
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 lacerates finger while checking belt tension
Jan 18, 2019#343728143Jan 18, 2019Monitoring (D) · Partial scope, Safety#343728143$18,2192 viol.2 violations$18,219 in penalties
Inspection #343728143
Dates
- Opened
- Jan 18, 2019
- Closing Conference Date
- Feb 21, 2019
- Final Order
- Mar 18, 2019
- Closed
- Apr 12, 2019
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 190
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 2
- Violation Types
- 2 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $20,838
- Penalties on Record
- $18,219
- Site Address
- 421 Grant Street, Chambersburg, PA 17201
- Industry
- 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning
Monitoring Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a monitoring inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Violations
Violation list (2 of 2 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 D03 | Serious | 1 | 2 | $10,419 | $10,419 | Mar 26, 2019 | - | Mar 18, 2019 |
| 01002 | 1910.212 General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding) OSHA citation code: 19100212 A01 | Serious | 4 | 4 | $10,419 | $7,800 | Apr 12, 2019 | - | Mar 18, 2019 |
May 16, 2018#343177754May 16, 2018Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#343177754$9,7001 viol.1 violation$9,700 in penalties
Inspection #343177754
Dates
- Opened
- May 16, 2018
- Closing Conference Date
- Nov 7, 2018
- Final Order
- Nov 21, 2018
- Closed
- Jan 22, 2019
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 200
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 serious
- Initial Penalties
- $12,934
- Penalties on Record
- $9,700
- Site Address
- 421 Grant Street, Chambersburg, PA 17201
- Industry
- 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning
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 is clearing jammed produce from auger and amputates
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 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 C04 I | Serious | 1 | 1 | $12,934 | $9,700 | Jan 11, 2019 | - | Nov 21, 2018 |
Jul 20, 2016#341633436Jul 20, 2016Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Safety#341633436$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #341633436
Dates
- Opened
- Jul 20, 2016
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 20, 2016
- Closed
- Sep 26, 2016
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- Yes
- Number of Employees
- 208
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 421 Grant Street, Chambersburg, PA 17201
- Industry
- 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning
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.
4 inspections, 2016 to 2019. 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.
Standards cited
Industry comparison
Food Manufacturing, 23,611 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.
BLS 2024 survey: fruit and vegetable canning reported 3.2 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 6.4%). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source