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OSHA Injury Report: Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage in Westport, MA 02790 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was fiber Operator Baler in bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage
Parent company
Mid City Scrap Iron & Salvage
Street
548 State Road
City
Westport
State
MA
ZIP
02790
On-site location
Door #6
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
16

The employee was working in the baler room making a bale.

The employee need to take a drum outside the baler room and as he was driving the fork lift out he hit the bump (difference in height between the inside concrete vs the outside asphalt) and felt pain in his lower back.

lumbar strain

uneven height between the inside concrete vs the outside asphalt.

lumber strain

Job description
Fiber Operator Baler
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
423930 — Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
58
Total hours worked
115505
EIN
42134265
Establishment ID
1177617
Employer case #
10
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
9:30:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:14:42:00

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.