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Best Block, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Dallas, Texas · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · NAICS 327331

6inspections
1citation items
$4,150current penalties
Mar 7, 2024last inspection

Best Block, LLC has 6 OSHA inspections on record in Texas, the first in 1986.

OSHA's last visit started on Mar 7, 2024 as a planned inspection, in Dallas.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $5,531 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $4,150, down 25%.

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Best Block, LLC averages $4,150 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.

Best Block, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 1986 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347329682 OPENED MAR 7, 2024Closed

Planned · Partial · Health · 38 employees at the site · Closed Apr 19, 2024

3815 Singleton Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75212 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 347277634 OPENED FEB 13, 2024Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 31 employees at the site · Closed Aug 9, 2024

240 E. 1st Street, La Feria, TX 78559 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 347246126 OPENED DEC 14, 2023Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 11 employees at the site · Closed Jun 25, 2024

2233 Ackerman Road, San Antonio, TX 78219 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
Other-than-serious$5,531$4,150Apr 11, 2024Final

Inspection 347145120 OPENED DEC 6, 2023Closed

Planned · Complete · Health · 24 employees at the site · Closed Feb 23, 2024

418 Gibbs Sprawl Road, Converse, TX 78109 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 344292438 OPENED SEP 9, 2019Closed

Planned · Partial · Health · 4 employees at the site · Closed Sep 17, 2019

3815 Singleton Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75212 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 101796902 OPENED FEB 5, 1986Closed

Planned · No inspection · Safety · 4 employees at the site · Closed Feb 7, 1986

2719 Guadalupe, Laredo, TX 78040 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

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 12, 2023, San Antonio: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was splitting a block on a splitter machine when the machine amputated his right middle fingertip.

Mar 14, 2020, Dallas: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.

An employee had been pulling brick from a conveyor. The employee's finger was caught in the conveyor plates and was amputated.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

Other concrete block and brick manufacturing employers in Texas

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