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OSHA Injury Report: City of Lynchburg Public Works Refuse Division

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at City of Lynchburg Public Works Refuse Division in Lynchburg, VA 24501 resulted in days away from work. Employee was refuse Associate in waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid.

Establishment
City of Lynchburg Public Works Refuse Division
Parent company
City of Lynchburg, Public Works Department
Street
Concord Turnpike
City
Lynchburg
State
VA
ZIP
24501
On-site location
4619 Latham St. Lynchburg VA
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
6

Dumping a trash cart into garbage refuse truck and compacting trash

After dumping a trash cart into rear loader garbage trash truck and beginning to compact what was dumped a glass bottle reechoed from the compactor and hit right eye cutting eye lid.

Right eye lid cut requiring sutures stitches to close wound.

Glass bottle.

While compacting trash in truck a glass bottle reechoed from the compactor and hit right eye cutting eye lid.

Job description
Refuse Associate
SOC code
53-7081 — Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
NAICS code
562111 — Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
36
Total hours worked
75232
Establishment ID
229740
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
6:30:00.000
Time of incident
12:30:00.000
Submitted
21FEB24:19:07:00

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.