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Utility Plus, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Woodville, Texas · Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction · NAICS 237130

1inspections
4citation items
$19,600current penalties
Apr 29, 2015last inspection

Utility Plus, Inc. has one OSHA inspection on record in Texas.

OSHA opened it on Apr 29, 2015 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Woodville.

From that inspection OSHA issued 4 citation items: 4 serious.

OSHA proposed $28,000 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $19,600, down 30%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.269, electric power generation, transmission, and distribution (4 items).

For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,078. Utility Plus, Inc. averages $19,600 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Utility Plus, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2015 to 2015
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 340595495 OPENED APR 29, 2015Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Complete · Safety · 14 employees at the site · Closed Sep 25, 2018

Cr 3630, Woodville, TX 75979 · Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Apr 28, 2015 (fatal): Employee is electrocuted while working on a downed powerline

At 11:30 a.m. on April 28, 2015, an employee was winching two broken ends of a downed power line together. The power line had been de-energized prior to starting. While the employee was handling the line, it became energized and they were electrocuted.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.269(m)(2)(v) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
 Serious$7,000$4,900Jul 13, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.269(m)(3)(ii) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
 Serious$7,000$4,900Jul 13, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.269(m)(3)(vi) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
 Serious$7,000$4,900Jul 13, 2015Final
Citation 1, item 4
29 CFR 1910.269(n)(3) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
 Serious$7,000$4,900Jul 13, 2015Final

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(m)(2)(v)

(v) The employer shall render any disconnecting means that are accessible to individuals outside the employer's control (for example, the general public) inoperable while the disconnecting means are open for the purpose of protecting employees.

29 CFR 1910.269(m)(3)(ii)

(ii) The employer shall ensure that all switches, disconnectors, jumpers, taps, and other means through which known sources of electric energy may be supplied to the particular lines and equipment to be deenergized are open. The employer shall render such means inoperable, unless its design does not so permit, and then ensure that such means are tagged to indicate that employees are at work.

29 CFR 1910.269(m)(3)(vi)

(vi) After the applicable requirements in paragraphs (m)(3)(i) through (m)(3)(v) of this section have been followed and the system operator gives a clearance to the employee in charge, the employer shall ensure that the lines and equipment are deenergized by testing the lines and equipment to be worked with a device designed to detect voltage.

Other power and communication line and related structures construction employers in Texas

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