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Colinx: OSHA inspections and violations

Grand Prairie, Texas · Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423830

2inspections
1citation items
$6,518current penalties
Mar 20, 2018last inspection

Colinx has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Texas, the first in 2017.

OSHA's last visit started on Mar 20, 2018 to follow up on an earlier case, in Grand Prairie.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $10,864 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $6,518, down 40%.

For context, across all wholesale employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,425. Colinx averages $6,518 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Colinx: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343027488 OPENED MAR 20, 2018Closed

Follow-up · Partial · Safety · 4 employees at the site · Closed Mar 22, 2018

905 Ave T, Suite 310, Grand Prairie, TX 75050 · Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 342351442 OPENED MAY 25, 2017Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 4 employees at the site · Closed Jul 6, 2017

905 Ave T, Suite 310, Grand Prairie, TX 75050 · Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on May 22, 2017: Employee's fingertip is amputated by rotating gear

At approximately 4:00 p.m. on May 22, 2017, Employee #1 was building a gearbox. As he built the gearbox, he held onto the gear while it was running. The rotating gear caught his left hand and amputated the middle fingertip on this hand. Employee #1 was transported to a medical center, where he received treatment and was then hospitalized.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1) · Machine guarding
Serious$10,864$6,518Jun 16, 2017Final

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.

May 22, 2017, Grand Prairie: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.

An employee was building a gear box when the gears amputated his left middle finger.

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)(1)

(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.

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