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BENTOLI INC.
$195,000
penalties
6
viol.
2
insp.

BENTOLI INC.

15908 EAST HWY 290, ELGIN, TX 78621NAICS 424910 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Inspections
2
Jul 2020 to Jun 2022 · 2 safety, 0 health
Violations
6
across 2 inspections
Penalties on record
$195,000
latest amounts in DOL records
By classification
Serious 3Willful 2Repeat 0Other 1

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Inspection records

Jun 1, 2022Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#345996136$00 viol.

Inspection #345996136

Dates

Opened
Jun 1, 2022
Closing Conference Date
Jun 1, 2022
Closed
Jun 3, 2022

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
18

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
0
Initial Penalties
$0
Penalties on Record
$0
Site Address
15908 East Hwy 290, Elgin, TX 78621
Industry
424910 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Follow-Up Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a follow-up inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Follow-up inspections are used by OSHA after earlier enforcement activity and can be used to check later compliance status.

Jul 6, 2020FatalityFatality/Catastrophe (M) · Partial scope, Safety#344823810$195,0006 viol.

Inspection #344823810

Dates

Opened
Jul 6, 2020
Closing Conference Date
Jul 8, 2020
Contested
Jan 21, 2021
Final Order
Dec 9, 2021
Closed
Sep 12, 2022

Inspection

Advance Notice
No
Owner Type
Private
Union Status
No
Number of Employees
18
Related Activity
1 accident

Violations and Penalties

Total Violations
6
Violation Types
3 serious, 2 willful, 1 other-than-serious
Initial Penalties
$445,293
Penalties on Record
$195,000
Site Address
15908 East Hwy 290, Elgin, TX 78621
Industry
424910 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Fatality/Catastrophe Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a fatality/catastrophe inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data.

Incident Investigation Summaries

Incident investigation summaries linked to this inspection through OSHA's accident and injury enforcement data. These summaries describe the reported incident. The enforcement outcome for the linked inspection is in the inspection details above.

FatalityJul 6, 2020

Employee is caught and killed when ribbon blender starts up

Event: Caught In or Between

Violations

Violation list (6 of 6 shown)
CitationStandardTypeInstancesExposedInitialCurrentAbatementContestFinal Order
010021910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C07 I
Serious18$13,494$12,500Jan 14, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
010031910.178
Powered Industrial Trucks
OSHA citation code: 19100178 L01 I
Other15$13,494$2,000Jan 14, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
020011910.28
Duty to Have Fall Protection
OSHA citation code: 19100028 B01 I
Willful26$134,937$53,000Jan 4, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
020021910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C06 I
Willful18$134,937$115,000Jan 22, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
020031910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 D04 I
Serious28$134,937$0Jan 14, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
020041910.147
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
OSHA citation code: 19100147 C05 II D
Serious18$13,494$12,500Jan 14, 2021Jan 21, 2021Dec 9, 2021
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About these records

A company page groups inspections with the same normalized employer name, city and state; it is not a legal-entity identifier (how pages are grouped).

This page displays public OSHA enforcement data. Status text follows the DOL inspection record first and may include citation-level context when the inspection feed and citation records are out of sync. Penalty amounts shown reflect the latest penalty amounts on record in the DOL database and may differ from initial assessments or final amounts. This is not an official OSHA resource.

OSHA's public enforcement data does not publish a "guilty" or "not guilty" field for inspections. The closest outcome fields available are the citation counts, penalty amounts, contest dates, final-order dates, and the inspection close date shown on this page. How to interpret these status fields. How initial and current penalties are recorded.

OSHA may publish multiple citation rows in the same inspection with the same standard and penalty fields. Separate rows can still differ in OSHA metadata such as citation identifier, recorded instance count, exposed workers, or gravity value. Contest and Final Order columns show citation-level dates from OSHA's enforcement record. A dash means OSHA's record does not currently show that activity for the citation.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA incident investigation data (`osha_accident` + `osha_accident_injury`). Linked via `rel_insp_nr` to the inspection activity number (exact government key). Injury, body part, source and event values are OSHA's own codes. OSHA states that these fields are not coded according to the requirements under the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Only the values present in the OSHA record are listed; an incident with no value that resolves in OSHA's code table shows "Injury details not recorded". Where a record covers several people, each field lists every value recorded across them.

Understanding These Penalties

The maximum penalty for a serious violation in 2025 is $16,550 per violation. For willful violations, the range is $11,823 to $165,514. The current penalty column shows the latest amount on record in OSHA's database for each citation. When the current penalty differs from the initial penalty, OSHA's records show that the amount changed during the enforcement process, but this page does not determine the specific reason for each change. Penalty amounts are set by OSHA and adjusted annually for inflation.

Standards cited

1910.147Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)4 citations · $140,000
1910.28Duty to Have Fall Protection1 citation · $53,000
1910.178Powered Industrial Trucks1 citation · $2,000

Industry comparison

Violations per inspection
This employer3.0
Industry average2.3
Penalties per inspection
This employer$97,500
Industry average$2,960

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods, 16,245 employers with OSHA inspections. Arithmetic from DOL records.

BLS 2024 survey: miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers reported 2.2 injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers (total recordable cases, national, private industry; relative standard error 8.4%; NAICS 4249 level). This is an industry-wide average from a federal survey, not a measurement of this establishment. Source

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