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Quality Metals, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

San Antonio, Texas · Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing · NAICS 332312

2inspections
14citation items
$33,893current penalties
May 16, 2025last inspection

Quality Metals, Inc. has 2 OSHA inspections on record in Texas, the first in 2014.

OSHA's last visit started on May 16, 2025 on a referral, in Houston.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 14 citation items: 13 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $56,489 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $33,893, down 40%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.305, electrical wiring methods (4 items).

For context, across all manufacturing employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,600. Quality Metals, Inc. averages $9,533 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Quality Metals, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2014 to 2025
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 348254723 OPENED MAY 16, 2025Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 14 employees at the site · Closed Dec 15, 2025

6460 Langfield Rd., Houston, TX 77092 · Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$9,268$5,561Sep 19, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.219(f)(3) · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
 Serious$0$0Sep 19, 2025Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries
 Other-than-serious$6,621$3,973Sep 19, 2025Final

Inspection 339551376 OPENED JAN 13, 2014Closed

Complaint · Complete · Health · 50 employees at the site · Closed Aug 13, 2014

210 W. Peden, San Antonio, TX 78204 · Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1 Serious$2,100$1,260May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$3,500$2,100May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.147(d)(3) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$3,500$2,100May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.178(a)(4) · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks
 Serious$4,200$2,520May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.242(b) · Hand and power tools
 Serious$4,900$2,940May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 1910.254(d)(7) · Arc welding and cutting
 Serious$4,200$2,520May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.254(d)(8) · Arc welding and cutting
 Serious$3,500$2,100May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 8
29 CFR 1910.305(b)(1) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$4,900$2,940May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 9
29 CFR 1910.305(b)(2)(i) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$4,200$2,520May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 10
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(ii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$2,800$1,680May 30, 2014Final
Citation 1, item 11
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(iii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$2,800$1,680May 30, 2014Final

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.

May 1, 2025, Houston: Hospitalization · nonfatal 'crushing' injuries · arm(s) unspecified

An employee was using a machine to put corrugation bends in flat sheet metal. The employee was feeding a new roll of sheet metal into the machine when his glove got caught by the first series of rollers and an adjacent chain and sprocket. The rollers crushed the employee's arm which required surgery and hospitalization.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2)

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.141(a)(3)(i)

(3) Housekeeping. (i) All places of employment shall be kept clean to the extent that the nature of the work allows.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.

29 CFR 1910.178 · Forklifts and other powered industrial trucks

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts

29 CFR 1910.242 · Hand and power tools

29 CFR 1910.254 · Arc welding and cutting

29 CFR 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

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