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BFC Solutions: OSHA inspections and violations

Grand Prairie, Texas · Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing · NAICS 333413

1inspections
4citation items
$17,350current penalties
Oct 13, 2020last inspection

BFC Solutions has one OSHA inspection on record in Texas.

OSHA opened it on Oct 13, 2020 on a referral, in Grand Prairie.

From that inspection OSHA issued 4 citation items: 3 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $28,916 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $17,350, down 40%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.212, machine guarding (2 items).

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. BFC Solutions averages $17,350 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

BFC Solutions: OSHA citation items per year, 2020 to 2020
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344978432 OPENED OCT 13, 2020Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 350 employees at the site · Closed Dec 22, 2020

2009 North Great Southwest Pkwy, Grand Prairie, TX 75050 · Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Sep 30, 2020: Employee lacerates, bruises hand when caught in pleating mac

At 3:45 a.m. on September 30, 2020, an employee working as a machine operator for an HVAC preventive maintenance company was loading filter media into a pleating machine. The employee placed her hand in the danger zone of the machine when the plate came down on her right hand. The employee sustained a contusion and laceration to her hand and was hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(a)(3)(i) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$9,639$5,783Nov 6, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$13,494$8,096Nov 6, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(iii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$5,783$3,470Nov 6, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.157(c)(1) · Portable fire extinguishers
 Other-than-serious$0$0Nov 6, 2020Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

Sep 30, 2020, Grand Prairie: Hospitalization · cuts and abrasions or bruises · hand(s), unspecified

An employee was loading filter media into a pleating machine when her right hand became caught between pleaters, causing contusions and lacerations.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(a)(3)(i)

(3) Purpose. (i) This section requires employers to establish a program and utilize procedures for affixing appropriate lockout devices or tagout devices to energy isolating devices, and to otherwise disable machines or equipment to prevent unexpected energization, start-up or release of stored energy in order to prevent injury to employees.

29 CFR 1910.157 · Portable fire extinguishers

29 CFR 1910.157(c)(1)

(c) General requirements. (1) The employer shall provide portable fire extinguishers and shall mount, locate and identify them so that they are readily accessible to employees without subjecting the employees to possible injury.

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.

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