New Horizons Baking Co.

Columbus, OH 2025 Small Manufacturers

OSHA Osha Repeat Lockout Tagout Training Osha Repeat Lockout Tagout Procedure Osha Repeat Machine Guarding Osha Serious Chemical Hazards Osha Serious Caught In Pinch Point Osha Serious Struck By Hazards

Penalty

$394,849

Outcome

New Horizons Baking Co. was cited for 3 repeat and 9 serious OSHA violations and fined $394,849 for exposing workers at its Columbus, Ohio bakery to chemical, caught-in, caught-between, pinch-point, and struck-by hazards from inadequately guarded and improperly locked-out machinery.

Details

New Horizons Baking Co. — Repeat Lockout/Machine Guard Violations, Columbus OH (2025)

Outcome: New Horizons Baking Co. was cited for 3 repeat and 9 serious OSHA violations and fined $394,849 at its Columbus, Ohio commercial bakery for recurring machine guarding, lockout/tagout, and chemical hazard failures.

Federal investigators from OSHA inspected New Horizons Baking Co.'s Columbus, Ohio commercial bakery facility in 2025 and found systemic, recurring machine safety failures. The agency cited three repeat violations — indicating these same deficiencies had been cited in prior inspections — for failure to properly train workers on hazardous energy control (lockout/tagout), failure to implement lockout/tagout procedures during machine servicing, and inadequate machine guarding.

Nine additional serious violations covered a range of injury-producing hazards: chemical exposure risks, caught-between and caught-in machinery hazards, pinch-point hazards where body parts could be drawn into moving machinery, and struck-by hazards from moving machine components. A single other-than-serious violation was also issued.

OSHA proposed a total penalty of $394,849.

Primary Source: US Department of Labor cites Ohio commercial bakery for repeat, serious safety violations

How Crucible Prevents This

Commercial baking equipment — mixers, conveyors, slicers, and dough processors — presents recurring caught-in and pinch-point hazards that require written machine-specific lockout procedures and verified energy isolation before servicing. Crucible's compliance tracking applied to machine safety programs would flag the repeat classification, triggering elevated scrutiny before any new work permits are authorized on the same hazard categories.

Source: US Department of Labor cites Ohio commercial bakery for repeat, serious safety violations

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