Electrical Contractor Incorporated: OSHA inspections and violations
Covington, Georgia · Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors · NAICS 238210
10inspections
12citation items
$17,255current penalties
Apr 17, 2024last inspection
Electrical Contractor Incorporated has 10 OSHA inspections on record in Georgia, the first in 1991.
OSHA's last visit started on Apr 17, 2024 on a referral, in Douglasville.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 12 citation items: 10 serious and 2 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $26,503 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $17,255, down 35%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1926.404, ground-fault protection on job sites (4 items).
For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,080. Electrical Contractor Incorporated averages $8,711 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Electrical Contractor Incorporated also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Georgia · latest 90 days of OSHA records
138employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Jun 13, 2012 (fatal): Employee is electrocuted while taping wires for emergency li
At approximately 2:45 p.m. on June 13, 2012, an employee was standing on an 8-ft. fiberglass ladder. He was taping wires and placing wire nuts onto the exposed wires. The employee was leaning onto the metal grid while taping wires. While the employee was taping wires for emergency lighting 277V in the newly constructed bathroom, he accidentally came in contact with energized power from a secondary feed into the work area. The employee was electrocuted. electrocuted.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2023, the Covington site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 136 workers: 2.1 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.8 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Electrical Contractor Inc.
Covington · 2023
136
3
0
2.1
1.8
Electrical Contractor Incorporated
Covington · 2020
94
1
0
1.0
1.8
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Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
Apr 12, 2024, Douglasville: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations involving bone loss · thumb(s)
An employee was using a circular saw to cut a round board for pole lights. The board bent causing the saw to kick back and resulting in amputation to the employee's left thumb.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(a) Basic requirement. Each employer required by this part to keep records of fatalities, injuries, and illnesses must record each fatality, injury and illness that:
(a) Employees working in areas where there is a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, shall be protected by protective helmets.
(d) Guarding. All portable, power-driven circular saws shall be equipped with guards above and below the base plate or shoe. The upper guard shall cover the saw to the depth of the teeth, except for the minimum arc required to permit the base to be tilted for bevel cuts. The lower guard shall cover the saw to the depth of the teeth, except for the minimum arc required to allow proper retraction and contact with the work. When the tool is withdrawn from the work, the lower guard shall automatically and instantly return to the covering position.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.