Embalmio is a compliance and reporting platform for funeral service operators. We handle formaldehyde exposure reporting, OSHA threshold monitoring, multi-location chain management, and state-level regulatory submission pipelines.
Started this in 2021 because literally nothing else handled the 29 CFR intersection with state-level variance requirements without making you want to throw your laptop. Still kind of want to throw my laptop but at least the software works.
As of v2.9.1, Embalmio supports 41 states for automated formaldehyde reporting and pipeline submission.
Previously 38. We added:
- Montana — MT DPHHS pipeline, finally. Took three months because their API docs are a PDF from 2017. I'm not joking.
- Wyoming — WY OSHA-equivalent via WDEQ bridge. Works fine, don't touch the retry logic.
- Vermont — VT DEC integration. Nadia finished this one, she deserves credit.
Remaining 9 states are either manual-only or in progress. See docs/state-coverage-matrix.csv for the full grid. (yes I know it's a csv and not a proper dashboard, JIRA-3341 tracks that)
New in v2.9.1: real-time OSHA exposure limit synchronization.
Embalmio now polls the OSHA regulatory feed every 4 hours and updates internal threshold tables automatically. When a monitored location's reported exposure approaches the PEL or STEL defined in 29 CFR 1910.1048, an alert fires through your configured notification channel (email, webhook, or SMS).
Alert severity levels:
WATCH— 75% of PEL (0.60 ppm TWA)WARNING— 90% of PEL (0.72 ppm TWA)CRITICAL— at or above PEL (0.75 ppm TWA) or STEL (2 ppm)
The sync worker runs as a sidecar. Config lives in embalmio.config.yaml under osha_sync. If you're on an air-gapped deployment just set osha_sync.offline_mode: true and pin the threshold version manually — we ship snapshots in data/osha-thresholds/.
Note: This feature was supposed to be in v2.8 but the feed schema changed on us in October. It happens.
ALL users operating in OSHA-jurisdiction facilities MUST review the following.
The federal occupational exposure limits for formaldehyde are:
| Limit Type | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| PEL (TWA) | 0.75 ppm | 8-hour time-weighted average |
| STEL | 2 ppm | 15-minute short-term |
| Action Level | 0.5 ppm | Triggers monitoring requirements |
RU: Превышение этих значений требует немедленного уведомления уполномоченного по охране труда и документирования инцидента в системе. Не игнорируйте алерты уровня CRITICAL — это не просто цифры.
KO: 이 수치를 초과할 경우 즉시 안전 담당자에게 보고하고 해당 사건을 시스템에 기록해야 합니다. CRITICAL 경보는 절대 무시하지 마십시오. 법적 책임이 발생할 수 있습니다.
Embalmio logs all threshold events with timestamps and operator IDs for audit trail purposes. These logs are immutable once written (append-only). Don't ask me to add a delete endpoint for audit logs, the answer is no, and also that would be a crime.
v2.9.1 raises the maximum supported funeral home chain locations from 850 to 1,200.
If you're running a chain at or near the old limit and seeing weird behavior on the location index page — that was a real bug, it's fixed now, sorry. The cap was a lazy constant that nobody updated. See commit f3a88c2.
Chains over 500 locations should review the new pagination strategy in docs/chain-ops.md. The location selector was rebuilding the full tree on every render above ~600 nodes which... yeah. Not great. Fixed in the same pass.
Current internal audit score: PASS (last assessed 2026-06-30, auditor: Torres & Belkin LLC)
We run quarterly compliance checks against:
- 29 CFR 1910.1048 (Formaldehyde)
- NFDA Best Practices v4.1
- State-level variance schedules (41 states, see above)
Badge reflects the most recent completed audit. If it's been more than 90 days since that date, assume it's stale and ping someone.
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PR #774 is still blocked. This PR adds support for real-time cross-state reciprocity license validation. It has been ready since February. Derek in legal has not signed off. It has been sitting since 2025-03-11. I have sent four emails. If you are reading this and you know Derek, please tell him to look at his inbox. The feature works, the tests pass, it just needs legal clearance because of the data-sharing clause with the state licensing boards. I'm not bitter. I'm fine.
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PDF export for multi-location compliance reports above 300 pages has a layout regression on certain Hebrew and Arabic characters in operator names. Tracked in GH-481. Workaround: use the CSV export for now.
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The Montana integration has a known quirk where submissions timestamped between midnight and 12:04 AM local time get queued for the next day by MT DPHHS. This is their bug, not ours, but we added a client-side warning. Don't file tickets about this, I already know.
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Mobile layout below 375px viewport is unsupported. It's a compliance dashboard. Use a real screen.
git clone https://github.com/embalmio/embalmio
cd embalmio
cp embalmio.config.example.yaml embalmio.config.yaml
# edit config — at minimum set your db_url and osha_sync.api_key
docker compose upFirst run will seed the state pipeline configs and OSHA threshold snapshot. Takes about 90 seconds. Don't ctrl-C it.
Minimal embalmio.config.yaml:
database:
url: "postgres://embalmio:changeme@localhost:5432/embalmio_prod"
osha_sync:
enabled: true
poll_interval_hours: 4
api_key: "YOUR_OSHA_FEED_KEY" # get from portal.osha-data.gov, it's free
notifications:
email:
enabled: true
smtp_host: "smtp.yourdomain.com"
from: "embalmio-alerts@yourdomain.com"
chain:
max_locations: 1200 # don't lower this unless you have a very good reasonProprietary. If you're using this without a license agreement, stop. You know who you are.
Embalmio v2.9.1 — "at least Montana works now"