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Lowe's Market: OSHA inspections and violations

Bandera, Texas · Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) · NAICS 445110

2inspections
1citation items
$5,801current penalties
Dec 13, 2021last inspection

Since 2021, OSHA inspectors have visited Lowe's Market in Texas 2 times.

The most recent inspection opened on Dec 13, 2021 on a referral, in El Paso.

In all, OSHA issued 1 citation item: 1 serious.

The proposed penalties came to $14,502; today they stand at $5,801, 60% less.

Among retail employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $1,750 penalty. Lowe's Market averages $5,801 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Lowe's Market: OSHA citation items per year, 2021 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

Texas · latest 90 days of OSHA records

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2 of them in the same industry

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Inspection history

Inspection 345683288 OPENED DEC 13, 2021Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 39 employees at the site · Closed Jul 7, 2023

1480 George Dieter Blvd., El Paso, TX 79936 · Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Dec 12, 2021: Employee amputates thumb on bandsaw

At 10:30 a.m. on December 12, 2021, an employee was cutting beef shanks on a bandsaw with a bone cutting blade when his thumb made contact with the blade. The employee was hospitalized and the tip of his thumb on his right hand was amputated.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$14,502$5,801May 12, 2022Final

Inspection 345627699 OPENED NOV 9, 2021Closed

Planned · Partial · Health · 74 employees at the site · Closed Jan 13, 2022

907 Main Street, Bandera, TX 78003 · Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

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.

Dec 12, 2021, El Paso: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified

An employee was cutting meat shanks with a bandsaw. The blade struck the employee's right thumb, causing an amputation.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)

(ii) The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded. The guarding device shall be in conformity with any appropriate standards therefor, or, in the absence of applicable specific standards, shall be so designed and constructed as to prevent the operator from having any part of his body in the danger zone during the operating cycle.

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