Hahnville, LA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Occidental (OxyChem) Taft LA
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Occidental (OxyChem) Taft LA in 266 Hwy 3142, Hahnville, LA 70057 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was helper in other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Occidental (OxyChem) Taft LA
- Parent company
- Turner Industries Group LLC
- Street
- 266 Hwy 3142
- City
- Hahnville
- State
- LA
- ZIP
- 70057
- On-site location
- Occidental Taft LA Plant1 MCC room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 180
Before the incident
Pushing the breaker panel out of the [REDACTED] building
What happened
On [REDACTED] a crew of Turner warehouse employees were tasked with removing an old breaker panel from the [REDACTED] room storage area. The breaker panel had casters on the bottom but was not able to be rolled out manually a forklift was then used to assist. As the forklift was transitioning from the grade of the building to the grade of the ground the breaker panel shifted east. The breaker cabinet leaned over and contacted a PPE storage cabinet. The Turner employee that was pushing on the east side of the breaker panel left hand was on the edge of the breaker panel. As the breaker contacted the storage cabinet the employee attempted to retract the left hand and received an avulsion laceration to the left index finger. The employee was taken offsite to Prime medical for evaluation and then to the Orthopedic for treatment.
Injury or illness
Avulsion to the left index finger
Object or substance involved
Metal edge on the breaker cabinet
Summary line
Employee received avulsion to left index finger when hand was contacted by breaker panel.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Helper
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 237990: Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 115
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 238,842
- EIN
- 721513047
- Establishment ID
- 873413
- Employer case #
- 64649
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 09:45
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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