JOE'S CONCRETE FORM COMPANY

According to U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records, JOE'S CONCRETE FORM COMPANY — a industry sector 00 facility located at 123 WILLIAMS STREET, WRENTHAM, MA 02093 — was the subject of a formal OSHA inspection that resulted in 16 citation(s) and cumulative proposed penalties of $25,900.00. The inspection case was opened on 1990-03-28.

Federal investigators determined that one or more violations at this facility were committed willfully — meaning the employer either knowingly failed to comply with OSHA standards or acted with plain indifference to employee safety. Willful violations carry the highest penalty multipliers under the OSH Act.

State Context: Within MA, this facility's penalty places it at the 99th percentile among 60,671 inspected facilities. The statewide average penalty is $2,824.83.

Citation Analysis: The inspection produced 16 citations spanning 7 distinct OSHA regulatory standards. The citation breakdown includes: 8 serious — A workplace hazard that could cause death or serious physical harm exists, and the employer knew or should have known about the condition. 6 willful — The employer intentionally and knowingly committed the violation, demonstrating either an intentional disregard for the requirements of the OSH Act or plain indifference to employee safety and health. 1 other-than-serious — The violation has a direct relationship to job safety and health but is unlikely to cause death or serious physical harm.

Enforcement Timeline: Citations were issued beginning August 31, 1990 with the latest abatement deadline set for November 9, 1990. Of the 16 total citations, 15 (94%) have been marked as abated in DOL records, indicating substantial compliance with corrective action requirements.

Penalty Assessment: The cumulative penalty of $25,900.00 reflects OSHA's gravity-based penalty calculation methodology, which considers the severity of potential injury, the probability of occurrence, the employer's size, good faith, and violation history. The per-citation average of $1,618.75 falls within the standard penalty range.

Joe’s Concrete Form Company’s 1990 inspection revealed a catastrophic breakdown in safety management, characterized by a high concentration of Willful violations that signify an intentional disregard for worker safety or plain indifference to statutory requirements. The citation profile centered on heavy equipment operation (1926.600 and 1926.601) and excavation hazards (1926.651 and 1926.652), suggesting that employees were routinely exposed to crushing injuries and cave-in risks without the protection of required shoring or mechanized safety controls. The assessment of multiple $10,000 penalties for Willful infractions—at a time when such figures represented the statutory maximum—indicates that OSHA identified egregious behavior rather than mere negligence. Furthermore, the presence of various Serious violations related to medical services and first aid (1926.50) underscores a systemic failure to prepare for the inevitable injuries resulting from such high-risk site conditions. This was not an isolated lapse in judgment; the breadth of the sixteen citations demonstrates a fundamental absence of a safety culture. The gravity levels, consistently peaking at 09 and 10, confirm that the non-compliant conditions carried a high probability of resulting in permanent disability or death. For a concrete form contractor, this enforcement record represents a total collapse of operational oversight, placing the firm in the highest tier of regional risk profiles for that era.