WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

An employee was pushing a wire cart in the trash enclosure and brushed up against a trash bag. An unknown protruding object lacerated the employee's lower right leg.

An employee was tying a bungee cord when it came loose and struck his left eye resulting in the loss of the eye at the hospital.

An employee was pushing garbage into the waste truck when the blade of the hopper amputated his left ring fingertip.

On June 2, 2017, an employee was driving and performing waste removal tasks when he experienced heat exhaustion and was hospitalized.

As an employee was collecting garbage and throwing two bags in the back of the garbage truck, the driver pulled forward and then backed up and hit the employee. He was hospitalized with two fractured legs.

An employee was driving a tug when they fell from the tug and subsequently struck by the tug. The employee sustained a laceration along the right calf.

An employee was driving an asphalt roller when the vehicle drove over an uneven surface. This caused the machine to rock back and forth and the employee to fall off. The employee fell to the ground and the rear roller tire ran over the their right leg, resulting in a femur fracture, as well as an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear and a meniscus tear.

An employee fell off the back of a moving garbage truck while collecting trash, resulting in a broken leg.

While on a residential garbage collection route, an employee fell from the driver's side rear riding step of a rear load garbage truck. His lower left leg was struck by the driver's side rear tire, resulting in fractures of the tibia and fibula, along with lacerations to the top of the left foot.

An employee was trying to reconnect an airline between a tractor and a trailer while on the side of the road. The truck began to move. The employee fell under the truck and was run over as the truck pulled away. The employee suffered multiple fractures.

An employee was backing up a garbage truck at a landfill to empty the truck. A concrete platform gave way, causing the vehicle to slide down into the landfill pit 20 feet below. The employee was flung backward and forward, hitting his head on the dashboard of the vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

An employee was kneeling beneath a loading dock, inspecting the area for future installation of an automatic dock plate. The existing manual dock plate fell off the dock and onto the employee, fracturing their hip.

On June 24, 2025, at 3:25 p.m., an employee had just finished dumping his truck at the recycling facility when they took a break in their truck. They began to experience signs of heat-related illness and left the cab of the truck before temporarily losing consciousness and collapsing. The employee was hospitalized due to dehydration, heat exhaustion, and acute kidney distress.

An employee was descending a ladder. As he stepped down, his foot landed on a pipe, which caused him to lose traction and fall. He sustained multiple torn ligaments, a shattered tibia, and a compound fracture to the heel bone. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading a truckload of sulfuric acid/soda ash water mixture at a water treatment plant. Residual mixture in a hose cap spilled onto his right forearm, burning it. He was hospitalized.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.