Galena Park, Texas · Metal Service Centers and Other Metal Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423510
3inspections
2citation items
$12,500current penalties
Dec 2, 2021last inspection
OSHA has inspected MRC Global Inc. 3 times in Texas since 2015.
The latest one began on Dec 2, 2021 on a referral, in Frisco.
Those inspections ended with 2 citation items: 2 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $12,500 and still stand at $12,500.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,425, and MRC Global Inc. averages $12,500 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
MRC Global 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.
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Incident on Dec 1, 2021: Employee's face is injured when struck by projectile
At 12:30 p.m. on December 1, 2021, an employee was disassembling a control valve assembly when a metal cylinder was unexpectedly discharged under high pressure and struck him in the face. The employee was hospitalized to treat extensive damage to his facial features, including an eye injury and fractured jawbones.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 341961266 OPENED DEC 5, 2016Closed
Follow-up · Partial · Safety · 100 employees at the site · Closed Dec 13, 2016
Incident on Dec 9, 2015 (fatal): Employee is electrocuted while installing an actuator in a j
At 3:57 p.m. on December 9, 2015, an employee was working with two other workers and they were mating a 480 VAC Limitorque actuator to a 30-inch valve using a Jib crane. The employee's hand contacted the valve casing that was shorted internally and was electrocuted.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the Galena Park site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 45 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.3 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
093 Galena Park, TX (VAC)
Galena Park · 2017
45
0
0
0.0
0.3
174B Houston Proj. Galena Park
Galena Park · 2017
37
0
0
0.0
3.0
865 Galena Park, TX (RDC)
Galena Park · 2017
20
0
0
0.0
3.0
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 1, 2021, Frisco: Hospitalization · fractures · jaw, chin
An employee was disassembling a control valve assembly. During control valve disassembly a metal cylinder was unexpectedly discharged under high pressure and struck the employee in the face. The employee sustained extensive damage to facial features including an eye injury and fractured jawbones. The employee was hospitalized.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.303(g)(2)(i)
(2) Guarding of live parts. (i) Except as elsewhere required or permitted by this standard, live parts of electric equipment operating at 50 volts or more shall be guarded against accidental contact by use of approved cabinets or other forms of approved enclosures or by any of the following means:
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