Tuscaloosa, AL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Waste Connections of Alabama, Inc.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Waste Connections of Alabama, Inc. in 5400 Kauloosa Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was mechanic in garbage collection services.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Waste Connections of Alabama, Inc.
- Parent company
- dba Rumsey Environmental
- Street
- 5400 Kauloosa Avenue
- City
- Tuscaloosa
- State
- AL
- ZIP
- 35405
- On-site location
- maintenance shop
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 1
Before the incident
The EE was moving a drum using a drum dolly in the pm bay when the drum dolly struck the EE in the head. The EE sustained contusions to the forehead.
What happened
The EE was moving a drum using a drum dolly in the pm bay when the drum dolly struck the EE in the head. The EE sustained contusions to the forehead.
Injury or illness
head cut injury
Object or substance involved
dolly
Summary line
The EE was moving a drum using a drum dolly in the pm bay when the drum dolly struck the EE in the head. The EE sustained contusions to the forehead.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Mechanic
- SOC code
- 53-7081: Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
- NAICS code
- 562111: Garbage collection services
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 47
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 120,063
- Establishment ID
- 1221547
- Employer case #
- 1E01E01376
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-02
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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