NRP CONTRACTORS II LLC

According to U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records, NRP CONTRACTORS II LLC — a residential remodelers facility located at 168 ALBION STREET, WAKEFIELD, MA 01880 — was the subject of a formal OSHA inspection that resulted in 3 citation(s) and cumulative proposed penalties of $24,502.00. The inspection case was opened on 2021-12-07.

DOL records document workplace safety violations warranting formal citation under the OSH Act. While classified at the standard enforcement level, all OSHA citations require corrective action and may indicate areas where workplace safety programs should be strengthened.

BLS Injury Data: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022), this industry sector has an occupational injury rate of 2.8 per 100 full-time workers — 4% above the national average of 2.7. The sector fatality rate is 9.6 per 100,000 workers.

Industry Benchmark: The total penalty of $24,502.00 is more than 6.8× the national average of $3,609.14 for facilities in the Construction sector (NAICS 236118). This sector encompasses 532,749 inspected facilities nationwide with aggregate penalties totaling $1,922.8M.

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 3 citations spanning 1 distinct OSHA regulatory standards. The citation breakdown includes: 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. 2 serious — A workplace hazard that could cause death or serious physical harm exists, and the employer knew or should have known about the condition.

Enforcement Timeline: Citations were issued beginning March 9, 2022 with the latest abatement deadline set for May 16, 2022. Of the 3 total citations, 0 (0%) have been marked as abated in DOL records, which may indicate ongoing compliance gaps requiring further regulatory attention.

Penalty Assessment: The cumulative penalty of $24,502.00 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 $8,167.33 falls within the standard penalty range.

The enforcement record for NRP Contractors II LLC reveals a critical breakdown in powered industrial truck (PIT) safety management, specifically targeting operator qualification and operational oversight. The citations under 29 CFR 1910.178 demonstrate a systemic failure to ensure that forklift operators were properly trained, evaluated, and certified before being permitted to operate heavy machinery. The assessment of a $14,502 penalty for a single serious violation regarding operator training (1910.178(l)(1)(i)) is significantly higher than the industry average for residential remodelers, signaling that OSHA inspectors identified an immediate and high-gravity risk to life and limb. This pattern suggests that the employer treated PIT operations as a general labor task rather than a specialized skill requiring rigorous validation. By failing to enforce both the training and the safe operation standards (1910.178(o)(1)), the facility exposed workers to catastrophic risks, such as tip-overs or struck-by incidents, which are leading causes of fatalities in the construction sector. The gravity-ten rating across all citations indicates that the non-compliance was not a clerical oversight but a fundamental absence of a safety program. For a residential contractor, these penalties represent a severe regulatory rebuke, suggesting that the non-compliance was pervasive enough to warrant maximum statutory pressure to force a correction of the firm’s safety culture.