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OSHA Injury Report: Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government-Public Works SWMS-Solid Waste Collection

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government-Public Works SWMS-Solid Waste Collection in Louisville, KY 40217 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was solid Waste Supervisor in garbage collection services.

Establishment
Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government-Public Works SWMS-Solid Waste Collection
Parent company
Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government
Street
630 Meriwether Ave
City
Louisville
State
KY
ZIP
40217
On-site location
4325 Sunset Ave
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

ee was checking his routes

[REDACTED] stated at [REDACTED] he was at [REDACTED] servicing garbage bags on the ground. While attempting to lift one of the bags into the back of his pickup truck ([REDACTED]) the bag got caught on the tailgate of teh truck. ee had to yank the bag off the tailgate so he wouldn;t drop it and have garbage in the street. ee said he didn 't know how heavy the bag was until it was already in the air. The pain didn 't kick in until [REDACTED] when ee was sitting waiting on the tire man to repai his flat tire

Contusion Bruise; Arm-Left Shoulder-Left; Heavy Object

Heavy Object

Contusion Bruise; Arm-Left Shoulder

Job description
Solid Waste Supervisor
SOC code
53-1042 — First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Mover
NAICS code
562111 — Garbage collection services
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
117
Total hours worked
229846
EIN
320049006
Establishment ID
1533257
Employer case #
4398
Date of incident
Shift started
11:30
Time of incident
11:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
03MAR26:00:26:00

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.