1. Eric Harbin Deputy Regional Administrator
Region VI – OSHA Update
Eric Harbin
Deputy Regional Administrator

2. Pangolin and SandSlash

3. Agenda Structure of the Region Enforcement Inspections
Inspected Fatalities
Recordkeeping
Cooperative and State Programs
Voluntary Protection Program
Compliance Assistance
Consultation
Emergency Response

4. Retirement John Hermanson, Regional Administrator retired January 2016
Ben Ross is the Acting Regional Administrator

5. Structure of the Region
2 – Deputies
Area Offices
Regional Office Functions
4 – Assistant Regional Administrators
Administrative Programs
Cooperative and State Programs
Enforcement
Whistleblower
12 – Area Offices

6. Area Offices AUSTIN BATON ROUGE CORPUS CHRISTI DALLAS EL PASO
Ryan Casey Perkins, Area Director
La Costa Green Bldg La Posada, Suite 375 Austin, TX 78752
Phone (512)
BATON ROUGE
Dorinda Folse, Area Director
9100 Bluebonnet Center Blvd.
Suite 201 Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Phone (225)
CORPUS CHRISTI
Travis Clark, Area Director
606 N. Carancahua, Suite 700 Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Phone (361)
DALLAS
Timothy Minor, Area Director
1100 East Campbell Road
Suite 250
Richardson, TX 75081
Phone (972)
EL PASO
Diego Alvarado, Area Director
4849 North Mesa, Suite 200 El Paso, TX 79912
Phone (915)
FORT WORTH
Jack A. Rector, Area Director
8713 Airport Freeway, Suite 302 Ft. Worth, TX 76180
Phone (817)
HOUSTON NORTH
Joann Figueroa, Area Director
690 S. Loop 336 W., Suite 400
Conroe, TX 77304
Phone (936)
HOUSTON SOUTH
Mark R. Briggs, Area Director
17625 El Camino Real, Suite 400 Houston, TX 77058
Phone (281)
LUBBOCK
Linda Routh, Area Director
1205 Texas Avenue, Room 806 Lubbock, TX 79401
Phone (806)
LITTLE ROCK
Carlos Reynolds, Area Director
10810 Executive Center Drive Danville Bldg. 2, Suite 206 Little Rock, AR 72211
Phone (501)
OKLAHOMA CITY
David A. Bates, Area Director
55 North Robinson, Suite 315 Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Phone (405)
SAN ANTONIO
Alex Porter, Area Director
Fountainhead Tower, Suite 605
8200 W. Interstate 10
San Antonio, TX
Phone (210)

7. New Mexico is our 18(b) state, and has been operating under this plan since 1975.
OSHA Region VI covers approximately
495,571 square miles.

8. Enforcement Inspections
Year Inspections
FY ,838
FY ,531
FY ,463
FY ,702

9. Inspected Fatalities Fatalities FY 2014 – 253 FY 2015 – 262

10. Significant Cases
Sig Cases
FY 2014 – 24
FY 2015 – 27 FY

11. Reported Hospitalizations and Amputations
Date
Amputation
Loss of Eye
Hospitalization
January 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015
478 1
1,689
October 1, 2015 – August 29, 2016
521
1,889

12. Reported Hospitalizations and Amputations
Area Office
Amputation
Loss of Eye
Hospitalization
Austin 40
111
Baton Rouge 47
188
Corpus Christi 20
126
Dallas 70
211
El Paso 5 49
Fort Worth 58
219
Houston North 45
142
Houston South 43
186
Little Rock 68
176
Lubbock
129
Oklahoma City 61
139
San Antonio 17 93

13. Voluntary Protection Program

14. Compliance Assistance
Top industries for outreach:
Industry
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
All Industry
216
354
284
Construction
421
340
379
General Industry
206
239
160
Oil & Gas
177
142
104
Total
1,206
1,193
927

15. Compliance Assistance Outreach

16. Compliance Assistance
Top industries People Reached
Industry
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
All Industry
162,961
91,651
447,586
Construction
1,276,407
1,291,069
1,748,342
General Industry
53,691
239,777
95,927
Oil & Gas
43,569
125,934
87,802
Total
1,536,628
1,748,431
2,379,657

17. Compliance Assistance People Reached

18. Consultation Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Texas
Arkansas Department of Labor
Tel: (501)
Louisiana
Louisiana Workforce Commission
Tel: (225)
New Mexico
New Mexico Environment Department
Tel: (505)
Oklahoma
State Department of Labor – OSHA Division
Tel: (405)
Texas
OSHCON Program – Texas Department of Insurance
Tel: (512)

19. Emergency Response
Precipitation totals (inches) from August 8-15, 2016 Over two feet of rain was observed in parts of southeaster Louisiana which led to catastrophic flooding, especially in areas around Baton Rouge

20. Emergency Response

21. Press Releases August – Labor Rights Week
August – Louisiana flood recovery workers
June – Heat Advisory
May – Fall Stand Down
May – Workers’ Memorial Day
April – Riding mower deaths
March 21, Austin, Texas
April 1, Little Rock, ARK
April 5, Amite, LA
December, Poultry Symposium

22. Questions