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OSHA Injury Report: SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza in Brownsville, TX 78521 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was laborer in ship dismantling (except at floating drydocks and shipyards) merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza
Parent company
SA Recycling, LLC
Street
16200 Joe G Garza Sr Rd
City
Brownsville
State
TX
ZIP
78521
On-site location
Empire State Vessel
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
29

EE was picking up asbestos panels from the floor and tossing them aside.

After enough bending over and tossing EE felt his back sprain from the weight of the panel and stated his back had begun to hurt.

Strain of muscle and tendon of back wall of thorax & Strain of lumbar paraspinous muscle

NA

Employee was removing wall panels when he felt pain in his lower back. Diagnosis: Strain of muscle and tendon of back wall of thorax & Strain of lumbar paraspinous muscle

Job description
Laborer
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
423930 — Ship dismantling (except at floating drydocks and shipyards) merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
215
Total hours worked
499538
EIN
743222369
Establishment ID
1080723
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:44:00.000
Submitted
23JAN24:17:07:00

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.