Since 2011, OSHA inspectors have visited Averitt Express Inc. in Texas 4 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jul 8, 2020 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Houston.
In all, OSHA issued 3 citation items: 1 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $25,494; today they stand at $22,500, 12% less.
Among transportation and warehousing employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $2,408 penalty. Averitt Express Inc. averages $8,750 across 2 cited inspections.
2 inspections on this page followed a fatal incident.
Averitt Express 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.
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Incident on Jul 7, 2020 (fatal): Employee is crushed and killed when forklift tips over
At 10:00 p.m. on July 7, 2020, an employee was working for a firm that provided general, long-distance, truckload freight trucking. He was loading a forklift onto a ramp or platform for service. The employee drove the forklift up the ramp and then began to back it back down. As he was doing this, the left rear tire fell off the ramp. The forklift fell off the ramp, and the employee was ejected. The canopy of the forklift landed on the employee. He was pinned between the canopy and the cement ground. The employee suffered crushing injuries. He was killed.
Incident on Nov 28, 2011 (fatal): Forklift mast crushes operator
On November 28, 2011, Employee #1 a 19-year-old male with Averitt Express, a tra nsportation trucking company was attempting to read a scanning number from a pal let. Employee #1 could not read the scanning information for the seat of the Toy ota forklift that he was operating. So he placed the forklift brake on, unbuckle d his seatbelt and stuck his head in between the forklifts mast which is located in front of the steering wheel. As he did this, Employee #1's leg engaged the l ever that controls the mast and he was caught in between and was struck by the t elescoping mast which broke his neck. Employee #1 was declared dead at the scene by the Medical Examiner's Office.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Houston site logged 7 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 156 workers: 0.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry. Those cases cost 688 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Houston HOU
Houston · 2025
156
7
7
0.4
3.6
San Antonio SAT
San Antonio · 2025
52
1
1
2.0
3.6
DGH - Daikin Comfort Tech.
Houston · 2025
26
0
0
0.0
3.6
Houston HOU 1
Houston · 2017
306
9
9
3.9
3.6
San Antonio SAN
San Antonio · 2017
84
5
3
7.5
3.6
Petco DPC 2
San Antonio · 2017
24
5
2
14.8
3.6
Houston HOU 2
Houston · 2016
193
7
6
3.7
3.6
Houston DHH
Houston · 2016
22
0
0
0.0
3.6
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 making a delivery and was closing the door to a freight elevator at the customer location. The door came down faster than expected and caught his left hand between the two metal doors resulting in a fractured left index finger.
Feb 23, 2016, Houston: Hospitalization · cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages · brain
An employee was walking in the parking lot to the facility when he was struck by a yard truck that was moving trailers to different docks. The employee fell to the ground and suffered blunt force trauma to his head. He was hospitalized for surgery.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1)
(p) Operation of the truck. (1) If at any time a powered industrial truck is found to be in need of repair, defective, or in any way unsafe, the truck shall be taken out of service until it has been restored to safe operating condition.
Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees.
Other general freight trucking, long-distance, truckload employers in Texas
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.
