OSHA SearchOSHA records by employer

Backer Marathon, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Del Rio, Texas · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423730

5inspections
15citation items
$39,259current penalties
Feb 15, 2023last inspection

OSHA has inspected Backer Marathon, Inc. 5 times in Texas since 2018.

The latest one began on Feb 15, 2023 on a referral, in Del Rio.

Those inspections ended with 15 citation items: 9 serious and 6 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $98,939 and now stand at $39,259, 60% lower after settlements or reviews.

Grinders and abrasive wheels comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.215.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,425, and Backer Marathon, Inc. averages $13,086 (3 cited inspections).

It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.

Backer Marathon, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2023
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records

398employers cited

Get notified the morning OSHA posts each new citation in Texas: the employer, the site address, the rules broken and the penalty.

See who gets cited next

Latest cited in Texas

Checking a subcontractor, a client or your own company? Watch Backer Marathon, Inc. and get notified the morning OSHA posts a new citation for it.

Watch this company

Inspection history

Inspection 346507122 OPENED FEB 15, 2023Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 157 employees at the site · Closed Aug 21, 2023

808 Hackberry Ln, Del Rio, TX 78840 · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
 Other-than-serious$6,026$3,013Apr 26, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$12,055$7,233Apr 26, 2023Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Other-than-serious$6,026$3,013Apr 26, 2023Final

Inspection 343780367 OPENED FEB 12, 2019Closed

Follow-up · Partial · Health · 140 employees at the site · Closed Feb 15, 2019

808 Hackberry Ln, Del Rio, TX 78840 · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 343782777 OPENED FEB 12, 2019Closed

Follow-up · Partial · Safety · 140 employees at the site · Closed Feb 15, 2019

808 Hackberry Ln, Del Rio, TX 78840 · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 342903507 OPENED JAN 30, 2018Closed

Referral · Complete · Health · 140 employees at the site · Closed Nov 1, 2018

808 Hackberry Ln, Del Rio, TX 78840 · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.138(b) · Gloves and hand protection
 Serious$9,977$3,000Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.151(c) · First aid and eyewash
 Serious$8,315$2,500Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(1) · Hexavalent chromium
 Serious$11,641$10,000Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.1026(i)(5) · Hexavalent chromium
 Serious$11,641$0Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 4c
29 CFR 1910.1026(j)(1)(i) · Hexavalent chromium
 Serious$0$0Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5) · Hazard communication
 Serious$9,977$3,000Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Other-than-serious$0$0Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.253(b)(4)(i) · Gas welding and cutting
 Other-than-serious$4,989$1,500Jun 20, 2018Final

Inspection 342916764 OPENED JAN 30, 2018Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 140 employees at the site · Closed Aug 22, 2018

808 Hackberry Ln, Del Rio, TX 78840 · Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
 Serious$9,977$4,000Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.215(a)(1) · Grinders and abrasive wheels
 Serious$8,315$2,000Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.215(a)(4) · Grinders and abrasive wheels
 Other-than-serious$0$0Jun 20, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2c
29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9) · Grinders and abrasive wheels
 Other-than-serious$0$0Jun 20, 2018Final

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.

Dec 20, 2022, Del Rio: Hospitalization · cuts, lacerations · foot (feet), unspecified

An employee was transporting sheet metal into a laser cutter. The metal slipped and fell on the employee's foot, lacerating it.

May 26, 2021, Del Rio: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was crimping heaters, which were not staying in place. As she tried to fix them, a crimper crushed the tip of her finger, causing a fingertip amputation.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2)

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.

29 CFR 1910.1026 · Hexavalent chromium

29 CFR 1910.1026(d)(1)

(d) Exposure determination—(1) General. Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this section shall determine the 8-hour TWA exposure for each employee exposed to chromium (VI). This determination shall be made in accordance with either paragraph (d)(2) or paragraph (d)(3) of this section.

29 CFR 1910.1026(i)(5)

(5) Prohibited activities. The employer shall ensure that employees do not eat, drink, smoke, chew tobacco or gum, or apply cosmetics in regulated areas, or in areas where skin or eye contact with chromium (VI) occurs; or carry the products associated with these activities, or store such products in these areas.

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.138 · Gloves and hand protection

29 CFR 1910.151 · First aid and eyewash

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.215 · Grinders and abrasive wheels

29 CFR 1910.253 · Gas welding and cutting

Other warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers employers in Texas

Alert subscribers get notified of each newly cited employer in Texas the morning it is posted. See the alert plans.

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.