CHAPARRAL STEEL CO
300 WARD RD, MIDLOTHIAN, TX 76065
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Inspection records
Aug 13, 2024#347702995Aug 13, 2024FatalityReferral (C) · Partial scope, HealthFatality#347702995$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #347702995
Dates
- Opened
- Aug 13, 2024
- Closing Conference Date
- Aug 13, 2024
- Closed
- Feb 4, 2025
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 400
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint, 1 referral, 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Rd, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- 331110 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.
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.
Employee dies from heart attack while doing routine cleaning
Mar 16, 2023#346599301Mar 16, 2023Programmed Other (K) · Partial scope, Safety#346599301$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346599301
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 16, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 16, 2023
- Closed
- Mar 16, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 1,024
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Road, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- 331110 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
Programmed Other Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a programmed other inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. The public DOL category label is preserved here without adding extra interpretation beyond the government label.
Mar 16, 2023#346572787Mar 16, 2023Follow-Up (F) · Partial scope, Safety#346572787$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #346572787
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 16, 2023
- Closing Conference Date
- Mar 16, 2023
- Closed
- Mar 17, 2023
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 251
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Road, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- 331110 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
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.
May 24, 1988#100794668May 24, 1988Complaint (B) · Partial scope, Health#100794668$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #100794668
Dates
- Opened
- May 24, 1988
- Closing Conference Date
- May 26, 1988
- Closed
- Jul 12, 1988
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 941
- Related Activity
- 1 complaint
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Road, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Complaint Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a complaint inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. OSHA can open complaint-driven inspections after receiving safety or health complaints from workers or their representatives.
Mar 31, 1987#100737360Mar 31, 1987Planned (H) · Complete scope, Health#100737360$027 viol.27 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #100737360
Dates
- Opened
- Mar 31, 1987
- Closing Conference Date
- Apr 16, 1987
- Contested
- Jun 17, 1987
- Closed
- Jun 11, 1988
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 950
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 27
- Violation Types
- 27 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Road, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Violations
Violation list (5 of 27 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.134 Respiratory Protection OSHA citation code: 19100134 B01 | Other | 1 | 200 | $0 | $0 | Jul 20, 1987 | Jun 17, 1987 | - |
| 01002 | 1910.134 Respiratory Protection OSHA citation code: 19100134 B11 | Other | 1 | 1 | $0 | $0 | Jun 6, 1987 | Jun 17, 1987 | - |
| 01003 | 1910.151 Medical Services and First Aid OSHA citation code: 19100151 C | Other | 1 | 2 | $0 | $0 | Jun 19, 1987 | Jun 17, 1987 | - |
| 01004 | 1910.1025 Lead OSHA citation code: 19101025 D01 II | Other | 1 | 200 | $0 | $0 | Jul 20, 1987 | Jun 17, 1987 | - |
| 01005 | 1910.1025 Lead OSHA citation code: 19101025 D06 II | Other | 1 | 200 | $0 | $0 | Jul 20, 1987 | Jun 17, 1987 | - |
Showing the 5 violations listed first by citation identifier. This inspection has 27 total violations documented in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement database. The complete violation list is available at enforcedata.dol.gov.
Oct 16, 1986#100738277Oct 16, 1986Referral (C) · Partial scope, Safety#100738277$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #100738277
Dates
- Opened
- Oct 16, 1986
- Closing Conference Date
- Oct 16, 1986
- Closed
- Nov 5, 1986
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 950
- Related Activity
- 1 referral
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Road, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Referral Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a referral inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Referral inspections can result from another agency, another OSHA activity, or another source referring a potential hazard to OSHA.
May 8, 1985#2468809May 8, 1985FatalityAccident (A) · Partial scope, SafetyFatality#2468809$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #2468809
Dates
- Opened
- May 8, 1985
- Closing Conference Date
- Jul 15, 1985
- Closed
- Jul 15, 1985
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- No
- Owner Type
- Private
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 950
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Rd, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
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.
Respirator connected to nitrogen line; employee asphyxiated
May 25, 1982#16549594May 25, 1982Planned (H) · Complete scope, Health#16549594$01 viol.1 violation$0 in penalties
Inspection #16549594
Dates
- Opened
- May 25, 1982
- Closing Conference Date
- May 27, 1982
- Closed
- Jul 26, 1982
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 800
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 1
- Violation Types
- 1 other-than-serious
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- 300 Ward Rd, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Violations
Violation list (1 of 1 shown)
| Citation | Standard | Type | Instances | Exposed | Initial | Current | Abatement | Contest | Final Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01001 | 1910.95 Occupational Noise Exposure OSHA citation code: 19100095 E01 | Other | 100 | - | $0 | $0 | Jul 27, 1982 | - | - |
Jun 26, 1975#16461147Jun 26, 1975Accident (A) · Complete scope, Safety#16461147$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #16461147
Dates
- Opened
- Jun 26, 1975
- Closing Conference Date
- Jun 30, 1975
- Closed
- Mar 10, 1984
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- No
- Number of Employees
- 350
- Related Activity
- 1 accident
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Ward Road And Highway 67, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Accident Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as an accident inspection in the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data. Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye within 24 hours. An accident-related inspection does not by itself determine fault.
Dec 17, 1974#16531832Dec 17, 1974Planned (H) · Complete scope, Safety#16531832$00 viol.0 violations$0 in penalties
Inspection #16531832
Dates
- Opened
- Dec 17, 1974
- Closing Conference Date
- Dec 17, 1974
- Closed
- Mar 10, 1984
Inspection
- Advance Notice
- Not recorded
- Owner Type
- Not recorded
- Union Status
- Not displayed
- Number of Employees
- 50
Violations and Penalties
- Total Violations
- 0
- Initial Penalties
- $0
- Penalties on Record
- $0
- Site Address
- Const Site Hwy 67 At Ward St, Midlothian, TX 76065
- Industry
- Not classified in OSHA's inspection record.
Planned Inspection: This inspection record is categorized as a planned inspection in the DOL OSHA enforcement data. Planned inspections are part of OSHA's scheduled enforcement activity rather than being opened directly from a complaint or reported incident at that worksite.
Penalty amounts may differ from final amounts after settlement or judicial review. How to read these records
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.
10 inspections, 1974 to 2024. Each row is one inspection; point at or tap a row for its dates and totals.
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