Bellingham, WA —
OSHA Injury Report: Pacific Street Operations Center
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Pacific Street Operations Center in Bellingham, WA 98225 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was utility Worker IV in general services departments, government.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Pacific Street Operations Center
- Parent company
- City of Bellingham
- Street
- 2221 Pacific Street
- City
- Bellingham
- State
- WA
- ZIP
- 98225
- On-site location
- 1614 Mount Baker Highway
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 24
Before the incident
My crew and I were on the side of the [REDACTED] installing concrete meter boxes over recently installed water meters. We were on the side of an embankment with the concrete boxes just uphill from us. The boxes were stacked three high in sets of three. Each stack was side-by-side. I grabbed the top right box to bring down an install. When I went back the second box of the right side stack I pulled it out and two other boxes fell down from the middle stack and squished my finger in between the box that I was holding and the ones that were falling. I immediately looked at my left little finger and noticed the fingernail has been almost completely ripped off and it was dripping blood. I walked over to my service truck to try to clean it up but it kept dripping blood. I asked [REDACTED] for his opinion of how bad it looked and he suggested that I go get medical attention. Another crew member drove me in for medical attention. I went to Care Medical on [REDACTED] for medical help. The docto
What happened
My crew and I were on the side of the [REDACTED] installing concrete meter boxes over recently installed water meters. We were on the side of an embankment with the concrete boxes just uphill from us. The boxes were stacked three high in sets of three. Each stack was side-by-side. I grabbed the top right box to bring down an install. When I went back the second box of the right side stack I pulled it out and two other boxes fell down from the middle stack and squished my finger in between the box that I was holding and the ones that were falling. I immediately looked at my left little finger and noticed the fingernail has been almost completely ripped off and it was dripping blood. I walked over to my service truck to try to clean it up but it kept dripping blood. I asked [REDACTED] for his opinion of how bad it looked and he suggested that I go get medical attention. Another crew member drove me in for medical attention. I went to Care Medical on [REDACTED] for medical help. The docto
Injury or illness
fingers crushed
Object or substance involved
meter box
Summary line
fingers crusher lifting objects
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Utility Worker IV
- SOC code
- 51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 921190 — General services departments, government
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 301
- Total hours worked
- 501342
- Establishment ID
- 1144247
- Employer case #
- SY70162
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 8:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 16:14:00.000
- Submitted
- 29FEB24:23:11:00
Source
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.