OSHA has inspected 5-T Utilities 3 times in Texas since 2012.
The latest one began on Oct 27, 2020 as a planned inspection, in Waller.
Those inspections ended with 4 citation items: 4 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $26,839 and now stand at $16,583, 38% lower after settlements or reviews.
Excavations comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1926.651.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and 5-T Utilities averages $15,383 (1 cited inspection).
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 1 case on it since 2015, with $54,454 in back wages owed to workers.
Inspection 341071561 OPENED NOV 19, 2015Closed
Planned · Partial · Safety · 20 employees at the site · Closed Nov 20, 2015
1900 17th St, Huntsville, TX 77320 · Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Feb 28, 2022, Huntsville: Hospitalization · fractures · lumbar region
An employee had been leveling dirt to make pipe grade and was moving toward the other end of a trench box to exit the trench using a ladder. The soil above the trench box caved in, and the employee sustained a lumbar spine compression fracture.
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
