Inspection 347812240 OPENED OCT 8, 2024Closed
5600 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr., The Colony, TX 75056 · General Warehousing and Storage · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
OSHA has inspected TXFM Inc. 3 times in Texas since 2022.
The latest one began on Oct 8, 2024 on a referral, in The Colony.
Those inspections ended with 3 citation items: 3 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $29,004 and now stand at $18,853, 35% lower after settlements or reviews.
Fall protection in construction comes up most often in these citations: 2 items under 1926.501.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for retail employers since 2015 is $1,750, and TXFM Inc. averages $18,853 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
TXFM Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
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Inspection 346936321 OPENED AUG 23, 2023Closed
5600 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr., The Colony, TX 75056 · Furniture Stores · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 345928345 OPENED APR 11, 2022Closed
1922 Cooper Hawk Drive, Arlington, TX 76005 · Furniture Stores · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Apr 8, 2022 (fatal): Employee is killed in fall through ceiling to ground
At 1:25 p.m. on April 8, 2022, an employee was working in the attic, running wires for a theater install. The employee fell through the ceiling two floors to the concrete below and was killed.
| Citation and rule | Type | Proposed | Current | Issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citation 1, item 1 29 CFR 1926.501(a)(2) · Fall protection in construction |
Serious | $14,502 | $9,426 | Aug 12, 2022 | Final |
| Citation 1, item 2a 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13) · Fall protection in construction |
Serious | $14,502 | $9,426 | Aug 12, 2022 | Final |
| Citation 1, item 2b 29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1) · Fall protection training in construction |
Serious | $0 | $0 | Aug 12, 2022 | Final |
Injury and illness logs
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2019, the The Colony site logged 64 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 1,455 workers: 4.9 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.0 for its industry. Those cases cost 3 days away from work.
| Site and year | Workers | Cases | Days-away cases | Rate | Industry median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Furniture Mart Texas The Colony · 2019 | 1,455 | 64 | 2 | 4.9 | 0.0 |
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Sep 29, 2024, The Colony: Hospitalization · fractures and surface, flesh wounds · leg(s) unspecified
On September 29, 2024, at 9:45 AM, an employee was operating a stock picker and transporting product when the picker contacted racking causing the product on the picker to contact the employee and push him against the controls bank of the stock picker. The employee sustained a fracture to his leg and two punctures to the left thigh.
Aug 10, 2024, The Colony: Hospitalization · dislocations · shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
On August 10, 2024, at 9:21 AM, the injured employee was hooking up flats to a tugger in a product storage aisle of the warehouse to transport the flats back to the workshop. The employee tripped on a bolt used to secure the rails that guide stock pickers down the aisles and fell to the ground. During the fall to the ground, he struck a product rack with his right shoulder and dislocated it.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1926.501 · Fall protection in construction
29 CFR 1926.501(a)(2)
(2) The employer shall determine if the walking/working surfaces on which its employees are to work have the strength and structural integrity to support employees safely. Employees shall be allowed to work on those surfaces only when the surfaces have the requisite strength and structural integrity.
29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13)
(13) Residential construction. Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels shall be protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system unless another provision in paragraph (b) of this section provides for an alternative fall protection measure. Exception: When the employer can demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems, the employer shall develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of § 1926.502.
29 CFR 1926.503 · Fall protection training in construction
29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1)
(a) Training program. (1) The employer shall provide a training program for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards. The program shall enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and shall train each employee in the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards.
Other furniture stores employers in Texas
- Mattress Liquidators El Paso · 7 citations · $18,000
- Williams-Sonoma Distribution Arlington · 1 citation · $639
- Dufresne Spencer Group, LLC Houston · 1 citation · $5,284
- Good Stores Texas, LLC Friendswood · 1 citation · $698
- Gonzalez Furniture Company, Inc. Mcallen · 10 citations · $10,000
- New Deal Mercantile Inc. El Paso · 8 citations · $18,500
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.