Gardena, CA ·
OSHA Injury Report: California Waste Services, LLC - Gardena - 621 West 152nd St Gardena, CA 90247
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at California Waste Services, LLC - Gardena - 621 West 152nd St Gardena, CA 90247 in 621 West 152nd Street, Gardena, CA 90247 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was sorter in waste materials merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- Parent company
- California Waste Services, LLC
- Street
- 621 West 152nd Street
- City
- Gardena
- State
- CA
- ZIP
- 90247
- On-site location
- Plastic cleaning area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 28
Before the incident
The employee was washing plastic bottles
What happened
While removing excess water that was under a table employee felt pain to his lower back.
Injury or illness
strain of lower back
Object or substance involved
The shovel weighted with water
Summary line
The employee was bent down while using a broom and shovel to pick up water. As they lifted the shovel with approximately four pounds of water they felt pain to their mid lower back.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Sorter
- SOC code
- 51-9061: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- NAICS code
- 423930: Waste materials merchant wholesalers
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 172
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 384,066
- Establishment ID
- 1504767
- Employer case #
- 2
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 15:00
- Time of incident
- 22:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-03-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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