Houston, Texas · Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) · NAICS 445110
20inspections
26citation items
$460,608current penalties
Jan 23, 2025last inspection
Since 1981, OSHA inspectors have visited Fiesta Mart, LLC in Texas 20 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Jan 23, 2025 on a referral, in Houston.
In all, OSHA issued 26 citation items: 4 serious, 8 repeat and 14 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $1,277,553; today they stand at $460,608, 64% less.
The rule cited most here is 1910.212 (machine guarding), 10 times.
Among retail employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $1,750 penalty. Fiesta Mart, LLC averages $75,888 across 6 cited inspections.
Fiesta Mart, LLC also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 15 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 2 cases on it since 2015, with $139 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
391employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Feb 16, 2022: Employee amputates fingertip while operating bandsaw
At 12:30 p.m. on February 16, 2022, an employee was cutting pork stew meat with bandsaw. The employee cut his right hand index fingertip on bandsaw, amputating the fingertip, requiring medical treatment without hospitalization.
Incident on Nov 13, 2019: Employee amputates fingers on band saw
At 11:00 a.m. on November 13, 2019, an employee was cutting meat with a Biro Band Saw, model 3334 serial 38561. The employee's hand contacted the band saw, resulting in the amputation of the right middle and index fingers. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2024, the Houston site logged 4 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 180 workers: 2.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 184 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Cor
Houston · 2024
180
4
4
2.0
4.0
Hou BellaireHillcroft
Houston · 2024
203
9
4
5.0
4.0
Plano site
Plano · 2024
127
4
2
3.2
4.0
Store 600
Houston · 2024
113
7
0
5.8
4.0
Hou Jensen
Houston · 2024
145
7
5
5.9
4.0
Hou AirlineI 45
Houston · 2024
133
5
2
4.3
4.0
DFW West Bolt
Fort Worth · 2024
137
6
1
5.2
4.0
DFW Buckner
Dallas · 2024
137
6
0
5.3
4.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 15 reports on file, the 6 most recent shown.
Jan 16, 2025, Houston: Amputation · amputations involving bone loss · other finger(s) n.e.c.
An employee was cutting pork ribs on a band saw. A section of the pork ribs became stuck on the band saw, resulting in amputation of their left index finger.
Aug 2, 2024, Houston: Hospitalization · fractures · arm(s) unspecified
An employee was operating a cardboard baler and moving boxes when the ram struck his right arm and fractured it.
Apr 14, 2024, Irving: Hospitalization · cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures · other finger(s) n.e.c.
An employee was cleaning a deli slicer with a rag. The slicer caught the rag and pulled the employee's finger into the slicer, cutting it.
Mar 15, 2024, Houston: Amputation · amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified · finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
An employee was cutting turkey legs using a band saw and suffered a fingertip amputation.
Jan 28, 2024, Houston: Hospitalization · traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified · hip(s) and leg(s) unspecified
An employee was cleaning the floor in the meat department. He slipped on a drain grate that had been removed for cleaning, landed on the floor, and suffered an injury to the left hip and leg.
An employee was standing in front of a store when they noticed another employee showing signs of a medical emergency. The injured employee went to help the other employee and fell, resulting in a right hip injury.
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
Nov 5, 2016 to Nov 3, 2018
Houston
1
0
$0
$0
May 22, 2016 to May 21, 2018
Fort Worth
3
3
$139
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1903.2 · Posting of notice; availability of the Act, regulations and applicable standards
29 CFR 1903.2(a)(1)
(a)(1) Each employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices, to be furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the nearest office of the Department of Labor. Such notice or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Each employer shall take steps to insure that such notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by other material.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
(iv) Individual hand towels or sections thereof, of cloth or paper, air blowers or clean individual sections of continuous cloth toweling, convenient to the lavatories, shall be provided.
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