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Block Partner LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

El Mirage, Arizona · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · NAICS 327331

1inspections
11citation items
$3,600current penalties
Oct 22, 2019last inspection

Block Partner LLC has one OSHA inspection on record in Arizona.

OSHA opened it on Oct 22, 2019 on a referral, in El Mirage, and the case has not closed yet.

From that inspection OSHA issued 11 citation items: 8 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $4,000 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $3,600, down 10%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.178, forklifts and other powered industrial trucks (3 items).

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $4,500. Block Partner LLC averages $3,600 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

Block Partner LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344392972 OPENED OCT 22, 2019Open

Referral · Partial · Safety · 25 employees at the site · Open

12620 W Butler Dr, El Mirage, AZ 85335 · Concrete Block and Brick Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Oct 22, 2019: Employee amputates leg when caught under auger of cement mix

At 1:23 a.m. on October 22, 2019, an employee who worked as a laborer for a block manufacturer was cleaning built-up cement out of a cement mixer at the end of his work shift. The employee was inside the mixer when a coworker turned on the mixer causing the auger to strike the employee's left leg. The employee amputated his leg under the knee and was hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.146(c)(2) · Permit-required confined spaces
Serious$800$720Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.146(c)(7)(iii) · Permit-required confined spaces
Serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$1,600$1,440Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(4)(i) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 2c
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(i) · Lockout/tagout
Serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(ii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Serious$800$720Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
Serious$800$720Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
Serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(4)(iii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final
Citation 2, item 3
29 CFR 1910.178(p)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 20, 2020Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

29 CFR 1910.134 · Respiratory protection

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i)

(i) An employer may provide respirators at the request of employees or permit employees to use their own respirators, if the employer determines that such respirator use will not in itself create a hazard. If the employer determines that any voluntary respirator use is permissible, the employer shall provide the respirator users with the information contained in appendix D to this section (“Information for Employees Using Respirators When Not Required Under the Standard”); and

29 CFR 1910.146 · Permit-required confined spaces

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

Other concrete block and brick manufacturing employers in Arizona

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