OSHA has inspected Easthaven Incorporated 24 times in Texas since 1994.
The latest one began on Jul 27, 2018 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Houston.
Those inspections ended with 44 citation items: 33 serious, 1 willful, 4 repeat and 6 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $141,879 and now stand at $75,504, 47% lower after settlements or reviews.
Scaffolds, general requirements comes up most often in these citations: 17 items under 1926.451.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Easthaven Incorporated averages $8,149 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Easthaven Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 1 case on it since 2015, with $228,860 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
391employers cited
13 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Jul 27, 2018 (fatal): Employee is killed when struck and run over by forklift
At 6:45 a.m. on July 27, 2018, Employee #1 was performing flagging duties for the forklift operator. The employee approached the forklift on the operator's blind side. He was struck by and run over by forklift, and killed.
Incident on Oct 19, 2017: Employee falls from scaffold ladder and injures head and hip
At 3:30 p.m. on October 19, 2017, Employee #1, employed by a masonry contractor, was working at the multiemployer construction site of a two-story commercial building. He was working from a scaffold and engaged in exterior masonry work. Employee #1 then began climbing down the scaffold ladder. He fell from the top rung of the scaffold ladder and struck the pavement below, a fall height of 15 feet. Emergency services were called, and Employee #1 was transported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for a concussion and a fractured hip. a fractured hip.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 339860116 OPENED AUG 6, 2014Closed
Planned · Partial · Safety · 15 employees at the site · Closed Jan 5, 2015
29 CFR 1926.701(b) · Concrete and Masonry Construction: general requirements
Serious
$450
$225
Aug 22, 1994
Closed
Injury and illness logs
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2019, the Houston site logged 2 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 62 workers: 3.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.8 for its industry. Those cases cost 114 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Easthaven, Inc.
Houston · 2019
62
2
2
3.0
2.8
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Aug 30, 2018, Katy: Hospitalization · effects of heat and light, unspecified · body systems
At about 2:30 p.m. on August 30, 2018, an employee was found in his car, having vomited due to heat stress. He was hospitalized.
Oct 19, 2017, Spring: Hospitalization · fractures · hip(s)
While descending a scaffold ladder, an employee fell 15 feet from around the second tier of the scaffold to the ground, suffering a hip fracture and concussion.
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Oct 3, 2013 to Oct 2, 2015
Houston
163
161
$228,860
$26,400
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(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.
(iii) The employer shall identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; this evaluation shall include a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazard(s) and an identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form. Where the employer cannot identify or reasonably estimate the employee exposure, the employer shall consider the atmosphere to be IDLH.
29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1)
(1) General. The employer shall provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace. The employer may discontinue an employee's medical evaluations when the employee is no longer required to use a respirator.
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