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OSHA Injury Report: Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management in Alexandria, MN 56308 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was equipment Operator in solid waste combustors or incinerators, nonhazardous.

Establishment
Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management
Parent company
Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management
Street
2004 Nokomis Street
City
Alexandria
State
MN
ZIP
56308
On-site location
Bale Storage Area
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
41

Employee and another employee had an overcharge in the baler and they had to shovel out tin out of the back of the baler hopper and putting the material in bins and dumping over the rails

Employee felt pain in his low back after completing the task of dumping the bins over the rails

Pain in back

lifting bins over rails

Employee was lifting a bin and dumping over rails and felt pain in his low back later on.

Job description
Equipment Operator
SOC code
47-2073 — Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
NAICS code
562213 — Solid waste combustors or incinerators, nonhazardous
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
64
Total hours worked
123770
EIN
473997919
Establishment ID
247187
Employer case #
11
Date of incident
Shift started
23:00
Time of incident
3:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
13JAN26:22:23:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.