La Porte, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Houston Polymers Terminal
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Houston Polymers Terminal in 10925 SH 225, La Porte, TX 77571 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was rail operator in general warehousing and storage.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 64
Before the incident
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.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Acromioclavicular separation
Object or substance involved
Train waggon
Summary line
acromioclavicular separation
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Rail operator
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 493110: General warehousing and storage
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 211
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 588,143
- EIN
- 222092160
- Establishment ID
- 225266
- Employer case #
- IK24-02931
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Time of incident
- 21:05
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-01-14
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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