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OSHA Injury Report: Houston Polymers Terminal

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Houston Polymers Terminal in La Porte, TX 77571 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was rail operator in general warehousing and storage.

Establishment
Houston Polymers Terminal
Parent company
Katoen Natie Gulf Coast, Inc
Street
10925 SH 225
City
La Porte
State
TX
ZIP
77571
On-site location
West yard between track 3 and track 7
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
64

Employee was the locomotive operator for the night shift on [REDACTED]. He was driving locomotive 9609 in which during a shoving operation he was given the command to shove to track 3. However confusion between groundsman and switchman caused that the shove proceeded to track 3 instead of track 7 where a point of shove was available and no point of shove was available on track 3. The impact of the locomotive with a staged string of full railcars in track 3 with the locomotive caused that employee fell from locomotive chair and therefore causing his fall and impact to his left shoulder.

Rail operator was given the command to shove to track 3 as he was shoving an apparent unexpected hard couple occurred. The couple was unexpected as a result of miscommunication between groundsman and switchman.

Acromioclavicular separation

Train waggon

acromioclavicular separation

Job description
Rail operator
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
493110 — General warehousing and storage
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
211
Total hours worked
588143
EIN
222092160
Establishment ID
225266
Employer case #
IK24-02931
Date of incident
Shift started
17:00
Time of incident
21:05
Filing year
2024
Submitted
14JAN2025:18:39:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.