OSHA investigated Austin Lewis Flores’s death after a workplace accident at H-E-B’s Northeast Side warehouse on April 4, 2026; he died four days later. OSHA initially cited 10 violations and proposed $80,388 in penalties. H-E-B said its evidence led the agency to dismiss seven violations, reducing the penalty to $49,650. A separate warehouse worker had died in 2025, and that investigation remained open.
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Flores was the second H-E-B warehouse employee in less than six months who died following a workplace incident at the same warehouse.
The investigation stems from the death of Austin Lewis Flores. H-E-B said Flores “was involved in an accident at work,” on April 4, 2026, at the company’s warehouse near Interstate 35 and Rittiman Road.
SAN ANTONIO – H-E-B faces nearly $50,000 in penalties following an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation into the death of an employee who was injured at the grocer’s Northeast Side warehouse.