OSHA has inspected Barnsco, Inc. 4 times in Texas since 1997.
The latest one began on Sep 24, 2025 on a referral, in Dallas.
Those inspections ended with 33 citation items: 19 serious and 14 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $88,894 and now stand at $48,546, 45% lower after settlements or reviews.
Machine guarding comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.212.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,425, and Barnsco, Inc. averages $14,765 (3 cited inspections).
Barnsco, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Dallas site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 175 workers: 2.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.6 for its industry.
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
Sep 18, 2025, Dallas: Amputation · amputations involving bone loss · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
A temporary employee was bending rebar on a bending table (machine) when his right little finger got caught in the rollers. The employee sustained an amputation down to the first knuckle below the fingernail.
Apr 24, 2024, Dallas: Amputation · amputations involving bone loss · other finger(s) n.e.c.
An employee was operating a coil bending machine when his finger became pinched in the mandrels of the machine, resulting in amputation.
Jul 10, 2020, Fort Worth: Hospitalization · fractures · upper arm(s)
While delivering products an employee fell about 5 feet off the back of a truck bed and sustained a broken humerus.
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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.