DW Distribution Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations
De Soto, Texas · Hardware Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423710
3inspections
2citation items
$7,761current penalties
Jan 18, 2024last inspection
Since 2005, OSHA inspectors have visited DW Distribution Incorporated in Texas 3 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jan 18, 2024 on a referral, in Cat Spring.
In all, OSHA issued 2 citation items: 1 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $14,228; today they stand at $7,761, 45% less.
Among wholesale employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,425 penalty. DW Distribution Incorporated averages $3,880 across 2 cited inspections.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
DW Distribution Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
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Incident on Jan 17, 2024 (fatal): Employee dies after collapsing
At 5:30 p.m. on January 17, 2024, an employee, a forklift driver, was tasked to go pull two items, while another forklift driver was pulling three items to complete orders. The employee was traveling south on the main road toward the material that was going to be pulled; in a statement, it was said that he passed the material and continued down the road. Coworkers assumed the employee was going to the port-a-potty that was located along the westside fence line. The other forklift driver returned to tent #1 and started putting together the order. He then looked down the road and noticed that the employee's forklift was pulled to the side, facing the shingles along the westside fence-line. About 15 minutes passed, and the other forklift driver went to check on the employee to make sure he was not stuck. The other forklift driver noticed that the employee's forklift had the left-side door latched open and he was hunched over to the right side of the steering wheel. The forklift operator and the manager noticed blood around the mouth of the employee, as well as on the floorboard and right-side door and window. The employee was unresponsive. They performed CPR, and EMS was called. The employee was taken to the hospital, where he died. The medical examiner report determined that the fatality was due to cirrhosis of the liver.
Incident on Jan 24, 2018: Employee lost tip of his finger while operating a saw
At 9:25 a.m. on January 24, 2018, an employee was using a miter saw. The employee struck his hands into the blade to un-jam material, resulting in the amputation of the tip of the ring and middle fingers of employees right hand. The employee was hospitalized and treated for his injuries.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Desoto site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 118 workers: 2.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 3.5 for its industry. Those cases cost 11 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
DW Distribution - Desoto
Desoto · 2025
118
3
2
2.5
3.5
DW Distribution Desoto
Desoto · 2023
125
1
1
0.8
3.5
DW Distribution (DeSoto)
Desoto · 2021
227
4
2
2.2
4.5
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(d) Exposure assessment—(1) General. The employer shall assess the exposure of each employee who is or may reasonably be expected to be exposed to respirable crystalline silica at or above the action level in accordance with either the performance option in paragraph (d)(2) or the scheduled monitoring option in paragraph (d)(3) of this section.
(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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