Deer Park, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Occidental (VCM) Deer Park TX
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Occidental (VCM) Deer Park TX in 5900 Highway 225, Deer Park, TX 77536 resulted in days away from work. Employee was scaffold Builders in other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Occidental (VCM) Deer Park TX
- Parent company
- Turner Industries Group LLC
- Street
- 5900 Highway 225
- City
- Deer Park
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77536
- On-site location
- 161020118007 OXY DP VCM Deer Park TX Furnace 200 unit
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
Before the incident
Employee was standing using his foot to stabilize the mudsill and jack.
What happened
Five Turner scaffold crew members were permitted to build an 80 x 2 x 18 scaffold inside furnace 4 of the 200 unit. As the team completed the first bay of the scaffold they proceeded to start erection on the second level. After installing two 8ft runners on the second level continued with the framing stabilizing the mudsill and jack the affected employee along with another crew member attempted to stab a 10ft scaffold leg. The scaffold leg came in contact with the furnace wall causing a piece of refractory brick estimated to weigh 25lb to fall approximately 56ft striking the affected employee on his back.
Injury or illness
Strike on the rightside of his midback.
Object or substance involved
Refractory brick
Summary line
Employee received contusions to lower back when a brick fell from above and contacted his back.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Scaffold Builders
- SOC code
- 47-2151: Pipelayers
- NAICS code
- 237990: Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Const
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 80
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 165,763
- EIN
- 721513047
- Establishment ID
- 1192324
- Employer case #
- 64913
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 10:20
- 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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