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A sample Opportunity Card for a made-up metal stamping plant in Ohio. The plant is not real. The layout, the fields and the checks are the ones a real card uses.

ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE

Part by part

Seven parts. Each one has a job.

OPPORTUNITY CARD

Sample metal stamping plant, Northeast Ohio

ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE · NOT A REAL PLANT
SAMPLE DATE 19 OCT 2026

23

FIX-BY DATE STILL AHEAD

23 days left · due 11 Nov 2026

A The plant

Metal stamping plant, Northeast Ohio

About 140 employees · stamped steel parts for appliance and auto suppliers

Size and products from the plant's own website [2]

What kind of plant, about how big, and where. Enough to tell in five seconds if it is your kind of job.

B What was cited

Mechanical power presses, point-of-operation guarding

29 CFR 1910.217(c)(1)(i) · SERIOUS · 3 INSTANCES

Also cited for general machine guarding

1910.212(a)(1) · OTHER-THAN-SERIOUS · 1 INSTANCEReal cards show the proposed penalty, from the public record [1]
OPEN · ALLEGED, NOT A FINAL ORDER

The hazard in plain words, with the exact OSHA standard beside it, how serious OSHA rated it, and how many instances. You can read the record yourself.

C Fix-by date

Citation issued 9 Oct 2026 · Plant must fix it by 11 Nov 2026

We first saw this record on 10 Oct 2026

OSHA calls the fix-by date the abatement date. Not contested as of the sample date. If the plant contests, the clock pauses and the card says so. [1]

The date the plant must fix the hazard by, and how many days are left. This is your reason to call now, not next quarter. If the plant contests the citation, the card says the clock has paused.

D Why it fits

Guarding a line of mechanical presses at the point of operation is design, fabrication and installation work that a plant this size usually hires out. The plant's website lists a line of several mechanical presses. [2]

One or two sentences on why this is work for someone like you, each tied to a source. No source, no sentence.

E Who to ask for

Plant manager, or the safety manager if there is one

Real cards give the name and title as the plant's website publishes them [3]

The job title to ask for, and a name when the plant's own website gives one. No guessed emails and no bought lists.

F Sources
[1] OSHA inspection record, public · link on real cards[2] Plant website, Capabilities page · link on real cards[3] Plant website, About page · link on real cards

A link behind every fact. That means the public OSHA record and the plant's own pages. Check anything before you pick up the phone.

Checked

On a real card, the review by a person is recorded here. The fit check is done by hand for now. We are still building the automatic version.

Who checked the card, and which steps were done by hand. If a step is still being built, the card says so.

ALLEGED VIOLATION, NOT A FINAL ORDER · NOT AFFILIATED WITH OSHA OR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

  1. A · The plant

    What kind of plant, about how big, and where. Enough to tell in five seconds if it is your kind of job.

  2. B · What was cited

    The hazard in plain words, with the exact OSHA standard beside it, how serious OSHA rated it, and how many instances. You can read the record yourself.

  3. C · Fix-by date

    The date the plant must fix the hazard by, and how many days are left. This is your reason to call now, not next quarter. If the plant contests the citation, the card says the clock has paused.

  4. D · Why it fits

    One or two sentences on why this is work for someone like you, each tied to a source. No source, no sentence.

  5. E · Who to ask for

    The job title to ask for, and a name when the plant's own website gives one. No guessed emails and no bought lists.

  6. F · Sources

    A link behind every fact. That means the public OSHA record and the plant's own pages. Check anything before you pick up the phone.

  7. Checked

    Who checked the card, and which steps were done by hand. If a step is still being built, the card says so.

Using a card

Read it. Check it. Then call.

01

Read it.

Look at what was cited and the days left. If it is not your kind of job, skip it.

02

Check it.

Open the sources. On a real card, the public record and the plant's own pages are one click away.

03

Call.

Ask for the person named. Talk about the deadline the plant already has, and how you would help meet it.

A FAIR CALL

Offer help with a public deadline. Don't present yourself as OSHA. Don't treat an open citation as proven. It is an allegation until a final order exists.

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