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Fire-Teck LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Tyler, Texas · General Automotive Repair · NAICS 811111

1inspections
1citation items
$3,880current penalties
May 16, 2018last inspection

Fire-Teck LLC has one OSHA inspection on record in Texas.

OSHA opened it on May 16, 2018 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Tyler.

From that inspection OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

OSHA proposed $3,880 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all repair and personal services employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $1,200. Fire-Teck LLC averages $3,880 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Fire-Teck LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343166971 OPENED MAY 16, 2018Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 5 employees at the site · Closed Oct 19, 2018

12950 Cr 411, Tyler, TX 75706 · General Automotive Repair · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on May 15, 2018 (fatal): Employee is killed when crushed by cab of truck

At 4:30 p.m. on May 15, 2018, Employee #1 was repairing a fire truck, with the cab lifted. As he worked, the cab of the fire truck fell on the employee, crushing his head and killing him.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$3,880$3,880Jul 11, 2018Final

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.

May 11, 2018, Tyler: Hospitalization · intracranial injuries, unspecified · brain

The employee was performing repairs on a fire truck while the truck's cab was being held up in a tilted position by a safety latch. The pivot point on the cab broke and released the cab lock. The cab fell from its tilted position and the employee was crushed between the engine and cab frame. The employee sustained severe head trauma.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.

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