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Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Pasadena, Texas · Petroleum Refineries · NAICS 324110

4inspections
6citation items
$34,565current penalties
Mar 24, 2025last inspection

OSHA has inspected Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc. 4 times in Texas since 2011.

The latest one began on Mar 24, 2025 on a referral, in Pasadena.

Those inspections ended with 6 citation items: 3 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $46,294 and now stand at $34,565, 25% lower after settlements or reviews.

Process safety management comes up most often in these citations: 5 items under 1910.119.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for manufacturing employers since 2015 is $4,500, and Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc. averages $10,282 (2 cited inspections).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2011 to 2025
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 348130352 OPENED MAR 24, 2025Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 315 employees at the site · Closed Dec 31, 2025

111 Red Bluff Road, Pasadena, TX 77506 · Petroleum Refineries · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1)(i) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
Serious$11,823$7,094Aug 29, 2025Final

Inspection 348108036 OPENED MAR 13, 2025Closed

Unprogrammed related · Partial · Safety · 315 employees at the site · Closed Aug 25, 2025

111 Red Bluff Rd., Pasadena, TX 77506 · Petroleum Refineries · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 341309680 OPENED MAR 7, 2016Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 600 employees at the site · Closed Oct 25, 2016

111 Red Bluff Road, Pasadena, TX 77506 · Petroleum Refineries · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.119(e)(1) · Process safety management
Serious$12,471$12,471Aug 25, 2016Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.119(d)(3)(i)(b) · Process safety management
Other-than-serious$1,000$1,000Aug 25, 2016Final

Inspection 315723593 OPENED DEC 12, 2011Closed

Referral · Complete · Safety · 360 employees at the site · Closed Dec 11, 2014

111 Red Bluff Road, Pasadena, TX 77506 · Petroleum Refineries · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(5) · Process safety management
Other-than-serious$7,000$4,000Jun 1, 2012Final
Citation 1, item 6
29 CFR 1910.119(j)(6)(iii) · Process safety management
Other-than-serious$7,000$4,000Jun 1, 2012Final
Citation 1, item 7
29 CFR 1910.119(l)(1) · Process safety management
Serious$7,000$6,000Jun 1, 2012Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

Mar 15, 2025, Pasadena: Hospitalization · thermal burns degree unspecified · trunk and other upper extremities

An employee was running boiler-feed water to wash salt off the side glass on a vessel. The hose ruptured, causing the hot water to spray onto the employee. The employee suffered burns to their chest, arms, and abdomen.

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(e)(1)

(e) Process hazard analysis. (1) The employer shall perform an initial process hazard analysis (hazard evaluation) on processes covered by this standard. The process hazard analysis shall be appropriate to the complexity of the process and shall identify, evaluate, and control the hazards involved in the process. Employers shall determine and document the priority order for conducting process hazard analyses based on a rationale which includes such considerations as extent of the process hazards, number of potentially affected employees, age of the process, and operating history of the process. The process hazard analysis shall be conducted as soon as possible, but not later than the following schedule:

29 CFR 1910.119(j)(5)

(5) Equipment deficiencies. The employer shall correct deficiencies in equipment that are outside acceptable limits (defined by the process safety information in paragraph (d) of this section) before further use or in a safe and timely manner when necessary means are taken to assure safe operation.

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

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