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 Gardena, CA 90247 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was d Driver in waste materials merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 10
Before the incident
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.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Contusion of right forearm and laceration without foreign body of right forearm.
Object or substance involved
Metal rod
Summary line
The employee opened the back gate of a highside trailer and a metal rod fell and struck his top right forearm.
Employee and industry
- 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
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:00
- Time of incident
- 13:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 02MAR26:19:36:00
Source
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.