Corpus Christi, Texas · Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing · NAICS 332410
14inspections
42citation items
$31,701current penalties
Dec 8, 2023last inspection
OSHA has inspected Ohmstede Ltd. 14 times in Texas since 1993.
The latest one began on Dec 8, 2023 on a referral, in Corpus Christi.
Those inspections ended with 42 citation items: 29 serious and 13 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $48,294 and now stand at $31,701, 34% lower after settlements or reviews.
Crawler locomotive and truck cranes comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.180.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $3,600, and Ohmstede Ltd. averages $9,467 (2 cited inspections).
Ohmstede Ltd. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 2 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Referral · Partial · Safety · 72 employees at the site · Closed May 30, 2024
410 Flato Road, Corpus Christi, TX 78405 · Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 343386819 OPENED AUG 15, 2018Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 127 employees at the site · Closed Nov 28, 2018
12415 Hwy 225, La Porte, TX 77571 · Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps
Incident on Aug 13, 2018: Employee amputates middle finger from right hand when caught
At 4:30 p.m. on August 13, 2018, an employee was using two nuts to hold a revolving 20-foot reamer and caught his right gloved hand with the reamer and amputated his middle finger. The employee was hospitalized.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Beaumont site logged 0 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 94 workers: 0.0 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 1.5 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Ohmstede Beaumont 1262
Beaumont · 2025
94
0
0
0.0
1.5
Ohmstede Corpus 1263
Corpus Christi · 2025
64
0
0
0.0
1.5
Ohmstede Ltd Laporte
La Porte · 2017
130
0
0
0.0
2.2
Ohmstede Ltd Beaumont
Beaumont · 2017
132
1
0
0.6
2.8
Ohmstede Ltd Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi · 2017
70
0
0
0.0
2.8
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 2 reports on file.
Dec 5, 2023, Corpus Christi: Hospitalization, amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was securing a heat exchanger tube sheet, weighing about 150 pounds, for match marking on a vertical stand. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the securement bolt and the table. The employee suffered an amputation to the left middle fingertip.
May 15, 2020, Corpus Christi: Amputation · amputations · fingertip(s)
An employee was removing flanges with a piece of equipment. A crane moved the equipment, causing it to wedge the employee's little finger against the concrete floor. The fingertip was amputated.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1904.2 · Partial exemption for establishments in certain industries
(i) A list of the hazardous chemicals known to be present using a product identifier that is referenced on the appropriate safety data sheet (the list may be compiled for the workplace as a whole or for individual work areas); and,
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(i)
(5) Transportation. (i) Chemical manufacturers, importers, or distributors shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals leaving the workplace is labeled, tagged, or marked in accordance with this section in a manner which does not conflict with the requirements of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.) and regulations issued under that Act by the Department of Transportation (49 CFR subtitle B).
29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(ii)
(ii) The label for bulk shipments of hazardous chemicals must be on the immediate container, transmitted with the shipping papers or the bills of lading, or, with the agreement of the receiving entity, transmitted by technological or electronic means so that it is immediately available to workers in printed form on the receiving end of shipment.
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