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OSHA Injury Report: Occidental (OxyChem) Geismar LA

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

At a glance

On , an injury at Occidental (OxyChem) Geismar LA in 8318 Ashland Road, Geismar, LA 70734 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was painter in other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
Occidental (OxyChem) Geismar LA
Parent company
Turner Industries Group LLC
Street
8318 Ashland Road
City
Geismar
State
LA
ZIP
70734
On-site location
161010118008 Occidental Chemical Geismar LA Chlorine Unit

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
1

Before the incident

Employee was working as the ground man assisting the scaffold builders.

What happened

A [REDACTED] program painter was assisting the scaffold builders due to his painting duties being shut down due to an outage in the caustic unit. While assisting the scaffold builders as the ground man he was asked to cut a notch out of a 1x2 ' piece of plywood. While cutting the board with the handsaw the blade became jammed. As it freed it slipped out of the groove. This caused the blade to contact the top of the employee 's left hand causing a laceration.

Injury or illness

Laceration to the top of left hand.

Object or substance involved

Handsaw

Summary line

Employee received laceration to the top of left hand when the hand saw bounced out of the groove and struck his hand.

Employee and industry

Job description
Painter
SOC code
47-2141 — Painters, Construction and Maintenance
NAICS code
237990 — Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
323
Total hours worked
671454
EIN
721513047
Establishment ID
873410
Employer case #
66047

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:10:00.000
Submitted
02MAR24:13:29:00

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.