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OSHA Injury Report: Ohio Valley Waste Services, Inc.

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Ohio Valley Waste Services, Inc. in Youngstown, OH 44509 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was mechanic in garbage collection services.

Establishment
Ohio Valley Waste Services, Inc.
Parent company
Ohio Valley Waste Services, Inc.
Street
1025 Bundy Ave
City
Youngstown
State
OH
ZIP
44509
On-site location
Ohio Valley Waste Service Truck Shop Youngstown Ohio
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

I tried to use a U-joint puller to get the cap off of a U-joint but it wouldn 't come off. So I tried using a hammer.

I was using a hammer to get the cap off of a U-joint. A little piece of the U-joint came off when I hit it with the hammer. The piece hit my left inner thigh going through my pants & underwear into thigh.

Foreign body lodged in left upper thigh.

Hammer broke piece of metal off U-joint.

A piece of metal lodged into upper inner thigh.

Job description
Mechanic
SOC code
53-7081 — Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
NAICS code
562111 — Garbage collection services
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
124
Total hours worked
272953
EIN
264205315
Establishment ID
47186
Employer case #
23-4
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:40:00.000
Submitted
08FEB24:15:59:00

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