Casella Waste Systems

An employee was cutting a bale tie wire to feed into the baler when the wire snapped back and punctured his right eye.

An employee was removing straps from a load of cardboard on a truck. A strap broke causing the pile of cardboard to collapse and knock the employee off the truck. The employee fell to the ground, fracturing his back.

An employee was using a rear load trash truck to empty an 800-pound cardboard collection dumpster. The dumpster over tilted and then rested against the truck. The employee pulled the dumpster back creating a free fall until the dumpster was caught by the lifting cable. The dumpster struck the employee on the left shoulder before coming to rest on the cable, resulting in a shoulder fracture and dislocation. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down from a truck after replacing a light and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured wrist.

A roll-off container door was unlatched to be dumped. It struck an employee in the right foot, breaking it.

An employee was on a two-step ladder performing cleaning activities in the de-oiler machine. The employee fell back and his right arm was caught in the equipment, resulting in a right forearm fracture that required surgery.

An employee was changing an insert in the tool head of a CNC machine. The employee had stepped up approximately 28 inches onto the door track of the machine. When the employee went to step back down to the floor, they lost balance and fell backward onto a rack of metal parts. The employee sustained a compression fracture to the spine.

An employee was packaging steel coils on a turntable. As he walked across the turntable, he slipped and fell onto a coil. His left bicep was lacerated by the slit edge of a coil.

An employee was monitoring a lumber-stacking machine when they slipped and fell into an unbanded bundle of lumber. The outer row of lumber then fell on their left leg, fracturing their leg and ankle.

An employee was putting parts away in a warehouse. He tripped and fell into metal shelving, resulting in a broken arm.

An employee was driving an ATV when it overturned and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured elbow requiring hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was elevating an auger when the auger shifted. He went to stop the auger from shifting when it struck him, resulting in injuries to his left ankle and pelvic bone.

An employee was training to use an industrial shredding machine. While he was dumping a box, the pulley on a conveyor caught the tongue of his right shoe and pulled his third toe into a pinch point between the conveyor belt and the pulley drive. The employee sustained an amputation to their toe.

On July 29, 2025, at approximately 3:00 PM, a driver reported feeling nauseous and weak. The employee was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion.

An employee was pushing a baler door that weighed about 500 pounds closed. A pair of wire cutters fell between the door and the baler wall. The employee was retrieving the wire cutters when the door closed, crushing the employee's right index finger against the baler wall and causing a partial amputation to the finger.

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip point. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle finger at the first knuckle.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.