Foremost Paving, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Brownsville, Texas · Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction · NAICS 237310
46inspections
66citation items
$11,871current penalties
Dec 12, 2016last inspection
OSHA has inspected Foremost Paving, Inc. 46 times in Texas since 1979.
The latest one began on Dec 12, 2016 on a referral, in Laredo.
Those inspections ended with 66 citation items: 35 serious and 31 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $24,125 and now stand at $11,871, 51% lower after settlements or reviews.
Earthmovers and forklifts in construction comes up most often in these citations: 13 items under 1926.602.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Foremost Paving, Inc. averages $0 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Foremost Paving, Inc. 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.
Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records
391employers cited
11 of them in the same industry
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Incident on Aug 23, 1994 (fatal): Employee killed when run over and covered by load
While backing his belly dump semi-trailer truck into position, a truck driver ba cked over Employee #1. He then proceeded forward while dumping caliche, and part ially covered Employee #1 with the dumped load. When the driver turned his rig a round, he discovered he had run over and killed Employee #1.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2020, the Weslaco site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 363 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.2 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Foremost Paving, Inc.
Weslaco · 2020
363
0
0
0.0
2.2
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.
An employee was rigging up forms and installing a lifting hook when the crane operator inadvertently lifted the form. The employee's finger was then caught between the form and the lifting hook, amputating the first left-hand digit.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
(a) Basic requirement. You must consider an injury or illness to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing injury or illness. Work-relatedness is presumed for injuries and illnesses resulting from events or exposures occurring in the work environment, unless an exception in § 1904.5(b)(2) specifically applies.
(5) Exposure of blades. When the periphery of the blades of a fan is less than seven (7) feet above the floor or working level, the blades shall be guarded. The guard shall have openings no larger than one-half ( 1/2) inch.
(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.
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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.