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Diversitech Corporation: OSHA inspections and violations

Columbus, Texas · Machine Shops · NAICS 332710

5inspections
9citation items
$18,067current penalties
Apr 5, 2024last inspection

OSHA has inspected Diversitech Corporation 5 times in Texas since 1999.

The latest one began on Apr 5, 2024 as a planned inspection, in Columbus.

Those inspections ended with 9 citation items: 5 serious and 4 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $33,000 and now stand at $18,067, 45% lower after settlements or reviews.

Grinders and abrasive wheels comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1910.215.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Diversitech Corporation averages $15,817 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Diversitech Corporation: OSHA citation items per year, 1999 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347395501 OPENED APR 5, 2024Closed

Planned · Partial · Health · 98 employees at the site · Closed Jan 28, 2025

5974 Interstate Highway 10, Columbus, TX 78934 · Machine Shops · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Other-than-serious$7,835$4,701Jul 8, 2024Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(ii) · Lockout/tagout
 Other-than-serious$7,835$4,701Jul 8, 2024Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.151(c) · First aid and eyewash
 Serious$7,835$3,918Jul 8, 2024Final
Citation 1, item 5a
29 CFR 1910.215(a)(4) · Grinders and abrasive wheels
 Serious$4,995$2,498Jul 8, 2024Final
Citation 1, item 5b
29 CFR 1910.215(b)(9) · Grinders and abrasive wheels
 Serious$0$0Jul 8, 2024Final
Citation 1, item 5c
29 CFR 1910.212(b) · Machine guarding
 Serious$0$0Jul 8, 2024Final

Inspection 342749090 OPENED NOV 2, 2017Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 653 employees at the site · Closed Nov 24, 2017

5974 Ih 10, Columbus, TX 78934 · Machine Shops · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Oct 14, 2017: Employee's fingertips are amputated on concrete mixer blades

At 12:00 p.m. on October 14, 2017, Employee #1 was cleaning an energized concrete mixer with the cover open. The employee placed his hand on the lip of the open cover, catching his fingers between the mixer blades and the housing of the mixer. The tips of two of Employee #1's fingers were amputated by the mixer blades. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 339856700 OPENED JUL 17, 2014Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Sep 24, 2014

5974 Ih 10, Columbus, TX 78934 · Machine Shops · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 304390974 OPENED JUL 2, 2002Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Aug 14, 2002

5974 Ih 10, Columbus, TX 78934 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.178(m)(5)(i) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$4,500$2,250Jul 17, 2002Closed
Citation 2, item 1 Other-than-serious$0$0Jul 17, 2002Closed

Inspection 123475386 OPENED JAN 13, 1999Closed

Programmed other · Partial · Health · 100 employees at the site · Closed Feb 12, 1999

Fm 949 At Interstate 10, Columbus, TX 78934 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1904.2(a) · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
 Other-than-serious$0$0Feb 4, 1999Closed

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 14, 2017, Columbus: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)

An employee was cleaning out a concrete mixer when his right-hand fingers were caught between the mixer door, amputating his third and fourth fingertips.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2)

(2) The employer shall verify that the required workplace hazard assessment has been performed through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated; the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed; the date(s) of the hazard assessment; and, which identifies the document as a certification of hazard assessment.

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.141(d)(2)(ii)

(ii) Each lavatory shall be provided with hot and cold running water, or tepid running water.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(6)(ii)

(ii) The employer shall certify that the periodic inspections have been performed. The certification shall identify the machine or equipment on which the energy control procedure was being utilized, the date of the inspection, the employees included in the inspection, and the person performing the inspection.

29 CFR 1910.151 · First aid and eyewash

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.215 · Grinders and abrasive wheels

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