Geismar, LA —
OSHA Injury Report: OxyChem Geismar LA
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at OxyChem Geismar LA in Geismar, LA 70734 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was foreman in other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- OxyChem Geismar LA
- Parent company
- Turner Industries Group LLC
- Street
- 8318 Ashland Road
- City
- Geismar
- State
- LA
- ZIP
- 70734
- On-site location
- 11101015088 Occidental Chemical Geismar LA Caustic Unit
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Employee was using banana wedges to attempt to spread the flanges.
What happened
A Maintenance [REDACTED] was using banana wedges to spread open a 2 300lb flange while helping his crew during a demo task. While attempting to strike the wedge the employee missed the wedge with the hammer causing him to slip and fall. As he was falling his hand made contact with the strike face of the wedge causing a laceration.
Injury or illness
Laceration to the left hand
Object or substance involved
Banana Wedge
Summary line
Laceration to the left hand
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Foreman
- SOC code
- 47-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Wo
- NAICS code
- 237990 — Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 296
- Total hours worked
- 615156
- EIN
- 721513047
- Establishment ID
- 1489037
- Employer case #
- 75256
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:30
- Time of incident
- 7:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 27FEB26:13:28:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.