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Kamps Inc
OSHA: 5 insp.Injuries: 2 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
The federal record for Kamps Inc, Columbus, Ohio, consists of 5 OSHA inspections and 2 years of injury summaries; the employer is classified under Wood Product Manufacturing.
OSHA opened 5 inspections at Kamps Inc sites in Ohio since 2016, issuing 11 citations, 9 of them classified serious, willful or repeat. Current penalties total $68,299 (initially $292,780), $14K per inspection, above the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.
On its 2024 Form 300A summary the employer reported 181 employees and 12 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 5.9 per 100 full-time workers, higher than the pooled rate for its industry (4.7; median establishment 3.8).
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 321 | Ohio | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $14K | $5,691 | $7,731 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 0% | — | 5% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 100% | — | 65% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Citations by standard
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.212 | Machinery and machine guarding, general requirements | 3 |
| 1910.147 | The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) | 2 |
| 1910.213 | Woodworking machinery requirements | 2 |
| 1910.95 | Occupational noise exposure | 1 |
| 1910.178 | Powered industrial trucks | 1 |
| 1910.219 | Mechanical power-transmission apparatus | 1 |
| 1910.305 | Electrical, wiring methods, components and equipment | 1 |
Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Nov 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 2 (2 S/W/R) | $19,860 | Final order | 1910.147(c)(4)(i) (Serious), 1910.147(d) (Serious) |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Referral · Health | Complete | 1 | $5,500 | Final order | 1910.95(g)(6) |
| 28 May 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 1 (1 S/W/R) | $6,500 | Final order | 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 28 May 2025 | Referral · Safety | Partial | 2 (1 S/W/R) | $13,000 | Final order | 1910.213(l)(2), 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious) |
| 3 Aug 2023 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 5 (5 S/W/R) | $23,439 | Final order | 1910.178(n)(6) (Serious), 1910.212(a)(1) (Serious), 1910.213(r)(4) (Serious), 1910.219(c)(4)(i) (Serious), 1910.305(g)(1)(iv)(a) (Serious) |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2024. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 321 (quartiles 1.0–7.6); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 364 | 599,711 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 8.0 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 181 | 407,427 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5.9 | 4.4 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Ohio. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Ohio in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
No labor condition application from this employer in Ohio appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Kamps Inc?
Yes. OSHA records 5 inspections at Kamps Inc sites in Ohio since 2016, most recently opened 19 Nov 2025.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
11 citations with current penalties totalling $68,299. 5 inspections have a final order on every citation, 0 have a contested citation and 0 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Kamps Inc?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Kamps Inc in Ohio in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Kamps Inc sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Kamps Inc in Ohio appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does Kamps Inc sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Kamps Inc hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Kamps Inc?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.