Asheville, NC ·
OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Public Works
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Buncombe County-Public Works in 200 College Street, 1st Floor, Asheville, NC 28801 resulted in days away from work. Employee was heavy Equipment Operator in landfills.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Buncombe County-Public Works
- Parent company
- County of Buncombe
- Street
- 200 College Street, 1st Floor
- City
- Asheville
- State
- NC
- ZIP
- 28801
- On-site location
- 190 Hominy Creek Road Asheville NC 28806
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 130
Before the incident
Employee had exited his machine to do a waste screen of a commercial hauler dumping trash.
What happened
The tailgate of the dumpster came loose while the employee was walking past. The tailgate swung down and struck the employee hitting him in the back and the head and knocked him to the concrete floor.
Injury or illness
Broken spinal bone injured shoulder neck injury head injury facial injury and elbows
Object or substance involved
Dumpster tailgate and concrete floor
Summary line
Back neck head face and elbow injuries from being struck by a dumpster tailgate that had come undone.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- SOC code
- 47-2073: Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- NAICS code
- 562212: Landfills
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 74
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 140,370
- EIN
- 566000279
- Establishment ID
- 997141
- Employer case #
- 60
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:30
- Time of incident
- 14:45
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-12
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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