Payless Insulation, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations
Houston, Texas · Drywall and Insulation Contractors · NAICS 238310
2inspections
6citation items
$21,296current penalties
Mar 23, 2024last inspection
Payless Insulation, Inc. has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Texas, the first in 2018.
OSHA's last visit started on Mar 23, 2024 on a referral, in Baytown.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 6 citation items: 6 serious.
OSHA proposed $35,493 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $21,296, down 40%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1910.134, respiratory protection (3 items).
For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,080. Payless Insulation, Inc. averages $21,296 over 1 cited inspection in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Payless Insulation, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 1 case on it since 2015, with $648 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Apr 30, 2018 (fatal): Employee is found unresponsive at work site and dies
At 5:00 p.m. on April 30, 2018, an employee was applying a fireproofing paint to the exterior of a building and sat on a scissor lift to drink a beverage. Coworkers found the employee unconscious and unresponsive. No further information was available through the initial report as to the cause of death.
No citations from this inspection.
Injury and illness logs
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2017, the Houston site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 35 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.3 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Payless Insulation
Houston · 2017
35
0
0
0.0
2.3
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 spraying fireproofing material from a scaffold and slipped, falling head-first approximately 6 feet to the concrete floor below, resulting in head trauma.
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Apr 5, 2020 to Mar 27, 2022
Houston
4
3
$648
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:
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.
(1) The test instrument must have an effective audio-warning device, or a visual-warning device in the form of a screen tracing, that indicates when the test subject fails to hold his or her breath during the test. The test must be terminated and restarted from the beginning when the test subject fails to hold his or her breath during the test. The test subject then may be refitted and retested.
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.
