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ANCHOR BRAKE SHOE COMPANY, LLC
$28,000
penalties
6
viol.
3
insp.

ANCHOR BRAKE SHOE COMPANY, LLC

1920 DOWNS DRIVE, WEST CHICAGO, IL 60185NAICS 336510 Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing

Inspections
3
Nov 2018 to Nov 2023 · 2 safety, 1 health
Violations
6
across 3 inspections
Penalties on record
$28,000
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 5Willful 0Repeat 0Other 1

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Inspection records

Nov 13, 2023Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#347098931$17,0003 viol.

Inspection #347098931

Dates

Opened
Nov 13, 2023
Closing Conference Date
Nov 13, 2023
Final Order
May 1, 2024
Closed
Jul 3, 2024

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
59
Related Activity
1 complaint

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
3
Violation Types
3 serious
Initial Penalties
$32,262
Penalties on Record
$17,000
Site Address
1920 Downs Drive, West Chicago, IL 60185
Industry
336510 Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing

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 (3 of 3 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010011910.22
Walking-Working Surfaces - General Requirements
OSHA citation code: 19100022 A01
Serious23$16,131$8,500Jun 10, 2024-May 1, 2024
010021910.134
Respiratory Protection
OSHA citation code: 19100134 G01 I A
Serious11$6,913$3,600Jun 10, 2024-May 1, 2024
010031910.1200
Hazard Communication
OSHA citation code: 19101200 F10
Serious11$9,218$4,900Jun 10, 2024-May 1, 2024
Jun 7, 2019Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#344064746$00 viol.

Inspection #344064746

Dates

Opened
Jun 7, 2019
Closing Conference Date
Not recorded
Closed
Sep 5, 2019

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
70

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
1920 Downs Dr., West Chicago, IL 60185
Industry
336510 Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing

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 1, 2018Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#343574190$11,0003 viol.

Inspection #343574190

Dates

Opened
Nov 1, 2018
Closing Conference Date
Nov 1, 2018
Final Order
Mar 22, 2019
Closed
Oct 16, 2019

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
Yes
Number of Employees
62
Related Activity
1 referral

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
3
Violation Types
2 serious, 1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$18,564
Penalties on Record
$11,000
Site Address
1920 Downs Dr., West Chicago, IL 60185
Industry
336510 Railroad Rolling Stock 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.

Oct 17, 2018

Employee amputates fingertip when caught by brake press

Event: Caught In or Between

Violations

Violation list (3 of 3 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010011910.132
Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements
OSHA citation code: 19100132 A
Serious110$5,304$4,000Apr 8, 2019-Mar 22, 2019
010021910.212
General Requirements for All Machines (Machine Guarding)
OSHA citation code: 19100212 A03 III
Serious110$6,630$6,000Apr 8, 2019-Mar 22, 2019
020011904.39
Reporting Fatalities, Hospitalizations, Amputations, and Losses of an Eye
OSHA citation code: 19040039 A02
Other11$6,630$1,000Mar 18, 2019-Mar 22, 2019
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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.

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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.

Standards cited

1904.39Reporting Fatalities, Hospitalizations, Amputations, and Losses of an Eye1 citation · $1,000
1910.22Walking-Working Surfaces - General Requirements1 citation · $8,500
1910.132Personal Protective Equipment - General Requirements1 citation · $4,000

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer2.0
Industry average2.9
Penalties per inspection
This employer$9,333
Industry average$2,702

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, 16,586 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: railroad rolling stock manufacturing reported 2.4 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 9.7%; NAICS 3365 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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