On October 27, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Citation and Notification of Penalty to Home Rubber Company, LP (Home Rubber or Respondent). Home Rubber filed a timely notice of contest bringing this matter before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (the Commission), pursuant to section 10(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. § 659(c) (the Act). OSHA opened an investigation at Home Rubber’s facility in response to a May 6, 2016 accident that seriously injured an employee. As a result, OSHA cited Home Rubber for thirty violations with a total proposed penalty of $180,592. Of the cited violations, two were classified as willful, twenty-three as serious, and five as other-than-serious.