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OSHA Injury Report: California Waste Services, LLC - Gardena - 621 West 152nd St Gardena, CA 90247

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at California Waste Services, LLC - Gardena - 621 West 152nd St Gardena, CA 90247 in Gardena, CA 90247 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was d Driver in waste materials merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
California Waste Services, LLC - Gardena - 621 West 152nd St Gardena, CA 90247
Parent company
California Waste Services, LLC
Street
621 West 152nd Street
City
Gardena
State
CA
ZIP
90247
On-site location
482 Pier T Ave, Long Beach CA - Tip floor area
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
10

The employee was opening the back gate to dump a metal load. Normally once the chains are removed and the lever is opened the material pushes the door open on its own. This time the material didnt push the door open so the employee pushed it manually.

As the employee manually pushed the door open and soon as the door cracked open a metal rod or pole fell out and struck the top of his right forearm.

Contusion of right forearm and laceration without foreign body of right forearm.

Metal rod

The employee opened the back gate of a highside trailer and a metal rod fell and struck his top right forearm.

Job description
D Driver
SOC code
53-3032 — Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
NAICS code
423930 — Waste materials merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
172
Total hours worked
384066
Establishment ID
1504767
Employer case #
13
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00
Time of incident
13:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
02MAR26:19:36:00

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.