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OSHA Injury Report: Willimantic Waste - Sprague

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Willimantic Waste - Sprague in SPRAGUE, CT 06330 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was cDL driver in garbage collection services.

Establishment
Willimantic Waste - Sprague
Street
130 Inland Rd
City
SPRAGUE
State
CT
ZIP
06330
On-site location
Customer location
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Smelled coolant while working on route

When driver was stopped at Woodstock Post Office after emptying container he got out of truck to check the truck. He saw a lot of coolant so when he was attempted to check the radiator cap he hardly touched it when the pressure blew the cap off spraying coolant on his face and eyes.

Face and eyes were sprayed with coolant

Coolant

Sprayed in face with coolant from truck

Job description
CDL driver
SOC code
53-7081 — Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
NAICS code
562111 — Garbage collection services
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
80
Total hours worked
187407
Establishment ID
826743
Employer case #
6
Date of incident
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
19FEB24:20:47:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.