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OSHA Injury Report: R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal

Injury · Other recordable case

At a glance

On , an injury at R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal in 5250 Baumhart Rd, Lorain, OH 44053 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was switcher in general freight trucking, local.

Where did this happen?

Establishment
R & J Trucking Lorain Terminal
Parent company
R & J Trucking, Inc.
Street
5250 Baumhart Rd
City
Lorain
State
OH
ZIP
44053
On-site location
Oberlin Landfill Oberlin OH

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Before the incident

Untarping a trailer at the tarp rack.

What happened

He was on the first floor of the tarp rack unhooking the bungee cords that hold the tarp down. IW stated that you have to duck on the first floor because of the height. When finished unhooking a bungee he turned while squatting hitting his left forehead on the steel beam that holds up the second floor.

Injury or illness

laceration from metal tarp rack beam

Object or substance involved

metal beam on tarp rack

Summary line

laceration from metal tarp rack

Employee and industry

Job description
Switcher
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
484110 — General freight trucking, local
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
73
Total hours worked
245162
EIN
341336167
Establishment ID
998961
Employer case #
18

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
16:10:00.000
Submitted
30JAN24:18:49:00

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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.