Portland, OR ·
OSHA Injury Report: Department of Environmental Quality
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Department of Environmental Quality in 700 NE Multnomah St. Ste. 600, Portland, OR 97232 resulted in days away from work. Employee was office Specialist in waste management program administration.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Department of Environmental Quality
- Parent company
- Department of Environmental Protection
- Street
- 700 NE Multnomah St. Ste. 600
- City
- Portland
- State
- OR
- ZIP
- 97232
- On-site location
- DEQ Portland HQ (Lloyd office) 6th floor
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 26
- Days restricted or transferred
- 121
Before the incident
What was worker doing right before the Incident occurred? Worker Came in to work followed daily habits coffee emails knew he had some filing left to do feeling calm. Walked over to files saw files & folders looked different like they had been touched worker doesn’t pay too much mind. Then worker opens the bottom drawer and notices his numeric order is not in order What the Heck moment notices the files are tightly squeezed in drawer worker starts pulling files out hears files snapping on the drawers. Files so tight the wont go down the bottom of the drawer not allowing drawer to close.
What happened
Worker Description of Incident While opening a file drawer it stuck closed due to other drawer not being closed all the way causing it to be in the locked position and when i tried to pull it open because of it being locked I pulled my bicep muscle which noe has pain all the way up to my shoulder.
Injury or illness
Left Bicep muscle strain
Object or substance involved
What object or substance directly harmed the worker? Force of pulling cabinent drawer
Summary line
Bicep muscle strain from force of pulling cabinet drawer
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Office Specialist
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 924110: Waste management program administration
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 807
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 1,405,622
- EIN
- 930584915
- Establishment ID
- 807893
- Employer case #
- INC-24982
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 10:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-04
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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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