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Broadhead Boring, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

New Braunfels, Texas · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · NAICS 213111

1inspections
3citation items
$15,178current penalties
Oct 7, 2022last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Broadhead Boring, LLC in Texas one time.

It opened on Oct 7, 2022 on a referral, in New Braunfels.

In all, OSHA issued 3 citation items: 3 serious.

The penalties, $15,178 in total, stand where OSHA first set them.

Among mining and oil and gas employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $2,880 penalty. Broadhead Boring, LLC averages $15,178 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Broadhead Boring, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2022 to 2022
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346272313 OPENED OCT 7, 2022Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 7 employees at the site · Closed Feb 5, 2026

Intersection Of Dauer Ranch Road And Pieper Road, New Braunfels, TX 78130 · Drilling Oil and Gas Wells · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1926.95(a) · Criteria for personal protective equipment
 Serious$6,250$6,250Mar 21, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1926.301(a) · Hand tools
 Serious$6,250$6,250Mar 21, 2023Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1926.651(j)(2) · Excavations
 Serious$2,678$2,678Mar 21, 2023Final

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.

Oct 6, 2022, New Braunfels: Hospitalization · heat (thermal) burns, unspecified · multiple body parts, unspecified

Employees were making a tie-in on an 8-inch natural gas line by attaching two squeeze-off tools to shut off the line. When the polyethylene pipe was cut, one of the squeeze-off tools failed, causing a leak that resulted in an ignition. One employee was burned over about 50 percent of their body; the other was burned over about 10 percent.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1926.301 · Hand tools

29 CFR 1926.301(a)

(a) Employers shall not issue or permit the use of unsafe hand tools.

29 CFR 1926.651 · Excavations

29 CFR 1926.651(j)(2)

(2) Employees shall be protected from excavated or other materials or equipment that could pose a hazard by falling or rolling into excavations. Protection shall be provided by placing and keeping such materials or equipment at least 2 feet (.61 m) from the edge of excavations, or by the use of retaining devices that are sufficient to prevent materials or equipment from falling or rolling into excavations, or by a combination of both if necessary.

29 CFR 1926.95 · Criteria for personal protective equipment

29 CFR 1926.95(a)

(a) Application. Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact.

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