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OSHA Injury Report: Houston Dust

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Houston Dust in Houston, TX 77011 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was operator in smelting nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), secondary.

Establishment
Houston Dust
Parent company
US Zinc
Street
6020 esperson st
City
Houston
State
TX
ZIP
77011
On-site location
Mill #2 packing
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

packing product into 5 gallon pails

When the employee finished packing the pails with product the employee was sweeting and dust and sweet got into his eye

Large corneal eye abrasion

piece of dust

Employee got dust particle in eye while working on packing mill #2. his sweat dripped down his face

Job description
Operator
SOC code
51-4199 — Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
NAICS code
331492 — Smelting nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), secondary
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
23
Total hours worked
77565
Establishment ID
1236960
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
14:00:00.000
Submitted
11MAR24:20:41:00

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.