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Nitro-Phos, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Houston, Texas · Nitrogenous Fertilizer Manufacturing · NAICS 325311

3inspections
18citation items
$24,195current penalties
Dec 2, 2024last inspection

OSHA has inspected Nitro-Phos, Inc. 3 times in Texas since 2015.

The latest one began on Dec 2, 2024 after a complaint, in Houston.

Those inspections ended with 18 citation items: 11 serious and 7 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $53,251 and now stand at $24,195, 55% lower after settlements or reviews.

Respiratory protection comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.134.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Nitro-Phos, Inc. averages $8,065 (3 cited inspections).

Nitro-Phos, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347865412 OPENED DEC 2, 2024Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 24 employees at the site · Closed Jun 24, 2025

7402 Neuhaus Street, Houston, TX 77061 · Nitrogenous Fertilizer Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.36(d)(1) · Exit route design
Serious$3,783$1,892Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.141(a)(5) · Sanitation
Serious$5,675$2,837Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.176(b) · Material storage and aisles
Serious$4,729$2,364Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.178(l)(2)(ii) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Other-than-serious$5,675$2,838Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 5a
29 CFR 1910.178(m)(2) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Serious$4,729$2,364Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 5b
29 CFR 1910.178(q)(1) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Serious$6,620$0Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.305(b)(2)(i) · Electrical wiring methods
Other-than-serious$6,620$3,310Mar 25, 2025Final

Inspection 347908881 OPENED DEC 2, 2024Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 24 employees at the site · Closed Jun 24, 2025

7402 Neuhaus Street, Houston, TX 77061 · Nitrogenous Fertilizer Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$2,837$1,418Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 1c
29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 1d
29 CFR 1910.134(g)(1)(i)(a) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 1e
29 CFR 1910.134(k) · Respiratory protection
Other-than-serious$0$0Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
Serious$3,783$1,892Mar 25, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
Serious$0$0Mar 25, 2025Final

Inspection 340634146 OPENED MAY 18, 2015Closed

Complaint · Partial · Safety · 13 employees at the site · Closed Nov 2, 2015

2600 Callie Street, Houston, TX 77003 · Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.23(c)(1) · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
Serious$2,400$1,440Oct 5, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.26(c)(2)(vii) · Portable metal ladders
Serious$2,400$1,440Oct 5, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1)(iii) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
Serious$1,600$1,440Oct 5, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.178(l) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
Serious$2,400$960Oct 5, 2015Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1)

(h) Employee information and training. (1) Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1)(iii)

(iii) How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear PPE;

29 CFR 1910.134 · Respiratory protection

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.176 · Material storage and aisles

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.23 · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes

29 CFR 1910.26 · Portable metal ladders

29 CFR 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

29 CFR 1910.36 · Exit route design

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