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Orbital Power Services: OSHA inspections and violations

Waxahachie, Texas · Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors · NAICS 238210

1inspections
2citation items
$13,052current penalties
Jul 28, 2022last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Orbital Power Services in Texas one time.

It opened on Jul 28, 2022 on a referral, in Waxahachie.

In all, OSHA issued 2 citation items: 2 serious.

The penalties, $13,052 in total, stand where OSHA first set them.

The rule cited most here is 1910.269 (electric power generation, transmission, and distribution), 2 times.

Among construction employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,080 penalty. Orbital Power Services averages $13,052 across 1 cited inspection.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Orbital Power Services: OSHA citation items per year, 2022 to 2022
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 346113889 OPENED JUL 28, 2022Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 120 employees at the site · Closed Oct 24, 2022

2400 N I-35, Waxahachie, TX 75165 · Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.269(l)(3)(iii)(b) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
Serious$13,052$13,052Aug 23, 2022Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.269(l)(4)(i)(a) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
Serious$0$0Aug 23, 2022Final

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.

Jul 25, 2022, Waxahachie: Hospitalization · electrical burns, unspecified · multiple trunk locations

An employee was working on a dead electrical line, cutting a mechanical jumper. The tail of the dead mechanical jumper contacted a dead-end shoe, resulting in an arc flash that burned the employee's chest and abdomen. 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 1910.269 · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution

29 CFR 1910.269(l)(3)(iii)(b)

(B) The energized part is insulated from the employee and from any other conductive object at a different potential, or

29 CFR 1910.269(l)(4)(i)(a)

(A) Exposed energized parts on which the employee is not working are insulated from the employee; and

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