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Blue Cube Operations LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Freeport, Texas · Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing · NAICS 325181

2inspections
7citation items
$66,200current penalties
May 21, 2025last inspection

OSHA has inspected Blue Cube Operations LLC 2 times in Texas since 2017.

The latest one began on May 21, 2025 on a referral, in Freeport.

Those inspections ended with 7 citation items: 6 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $115,850 and now stand at $66,200, 43% lower after settlements or reviews.

Process safety management comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.119.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Blue Cube Operations LLC averages $66,200 (1 cited inspection).

Blue Cube Operations LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2017 to 2025
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 348265448 OPENED MAY 21, 2025Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 1,100 employees at the site · Closed Apr 15, 2026

2301 North Brazosport Boulevard, Freeport, TX 77541 · Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(b) · Process safety management
 Other-than-serious$16,550$16,550Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(i)(d) · Process safety management
 Serious$16,550$16,550Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 3a
29 CFR 1910.119(f)(4) · Process safety management
 Serious$16,550$16,550Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 3b
29 CFR 1910.147(d)(3) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$16,550$0Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 5a
29 CFR 1910.120(q)(3)(v) · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
 Serious$16,550$16,550Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 5b
29 CFR 1910.120(q)(3)(vi) · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
 Serious$16,550$0Nov 18, 2025Final
Citation 1, item 5c
29 CFR 1910.132(a) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$16,550$0Nov 18, 2025Final

Inspection 342458783 OPENED JUL 7, 2017Closed

Unprogrammed related · Partial · Health · 1,200 employees at the site · Closed Oct 19, 2017

2301 N Brazosport Blvd., Freeport, TX 77541 · Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.119 · Process safety management

29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(b)

(B) Piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID's);

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(1)(i)(d)

(D) Emergency shutdown including the conditions under which emergency shutdown is required, and the assignment of shutdown responsibility to qualified operators to ensure that emergency shutdown is executed in a safe and timely manner.

29 CFR 1910.119(f)(4)

(4) The employer shall develop and implement safe work practices to provide for the control of hazards during operations such as lockout/tagout; confined space entry; opening process equipment or piping; and control over entrance into a facility by maintenance, contractor, laboratory, or other support personnel. These safe work practices shall apply to employees and contractor employees.

29 CFR 1910.120 · Hazardous waste operations and emergency response

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

Other other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing employers in Texas

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