OSHA has inspected Anthony Mechanical Inc. 32 times in Texas since 1974.
The latest one began on Jan 5, 2023 after a complaint, in Lubbock.
Those inspections ended with 41 citation items: 13 serious, 1 repeat and 27 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $19,433 and now stand at $11,605, 40% lower after settlements or reviews.
Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart comes up most often in these citations: 4 items under 1926.500.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Anthony Mechanical Inc. averages $4,592 (2 cited inspections).
Anthony Mechanical Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
391employers cited
8 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Aug 27, 2019: Employee's finger is caught in fan belt and amputated
At 10:00 a.m. on August 27, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a plumbing/heating/air conditioning company, was working at a hospital and attempting to place sheet metal to blank off air supply. While working inside the air handling unit 5B02, the employee caught his right hand in the fan belt. Employee #1 received an amputation to the tip of his finger. He received medical treatment but was not hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2016, the Lubbock site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 45 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.8 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Anthony Mechanical, Inc.
Lubbock · 2016
45
0
0
0.0
1.8
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
An employee was assisting two co-workers with unloading an air handler from a semi-truck using a forklift and a crane. The equipment fell from the crane while being unloaded from the forklift, hitting the employee and resulting in a fractured right leg.
Aug 27, 2019, Lubbock: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
While working inside an air handling unit, an employee's right hand was caught in the fan belt resulting in a middle fingertip amputation.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1903.2 · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards
29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1)
(a)(1) Each employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices, to be furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the nearest office of the Department of Labor. Such notice or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Each employer shall take steps to insure that such notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by other material.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
(h) High dispersion index of refraction oils (Special for dispersion staining.)
29 CFR 1910.1001(j)(7)(iv)
(iv) The employer shall also provide, at no cost to employees who perform housekeeping operations in an area which contains ACM or PACM, an asbestos awareness training course, which shall at a minimum contain the following elements: health effects of asbestos, locations of ACM and PACM in the building/facility, recognition of ACM and PACM damage and deterioration, requirements in this standard relating to housekeeping, and proper response to fiber release episodes, to all employees who perform housekeeping work in areas where ACM and/or PACM is present. Each such employee shall be so trained at least once a year.
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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.