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OSHA Injury Report: City of Lynchburg Public Works Refuse Division

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at City of Lynchburg Public Works Refuse Division in Lynchburg, VA 24501 resulted in job transfer or restriction. 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
Holmes Circle Lynchburg VA
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
3

Emptying garbage trash carts into garbage trash truck

Bent down to pickup a garbage trash cart that had fallen over and heard a pop in neck

strain of central neck

picking up a garbage trash cart

Strain of central neck; Bent down to pickup a garbage cart that had fallen over heard a pop in neck

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 #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
6:30:00.000
Time of incident
9:00:00.000
Submitted
21FEB24:19:39:00

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.