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OSHA Injury Report: Fort Wayne Hauling

Other illness · Days away from work

On , an other illness at Fort Wayne Hauling in Fort Wayne, IN 46806 resulted in days away from work. Employee was cDL Driver in solid Waste Collection.

Establishment
Fort Wayne Hauling
Parent company
GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC
Street
4429 Allen Martin Drive
City
Fort Wayne
State
IN
ZIP
46806
On-site location
On Route
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Other illness (code 6)
Days away from work
1

Employee had just emptied a residential sized trash toter into the hoper of the truck.

As the employee was engaging the hoper blade to compact the trash in the hoper a bag which contained a large amount of an unknown substance (white powder) exploded into a plum of dust directed at the employee

Employee ingested and had physical contact with the unknow substance that came out of bag.

Unknown substance (white powder)

[REDACTED] Strange substance

Job description
CDL Driver
SOC code
53-7081 — Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
NAICS code
562111 — Solid Waste Collection
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
70
Total hours worked
154552
EIN
852637082
Establishment ID
1030475
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
6:30:00.000
Time of incident
17:00:00.000
Submitted
26FEB24:19:13:00

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.