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OSHA Injury Report: Grower Direct Farms

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Grower Direct Farms in Somers, CT 06071 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was truck Driver in plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing.

Establishment
Grower Direct Farms
Parent company
Grower Direct Farms
Street
164 Hampden Road
City
Somers
State
CT
ZIP
06071
On-site location
Truck
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
35

The switch for the lift gate in [REDACTED] 's trailer was not working on the inside. [REDACTED] had to use the lift gate from the outside. He had to repetitively jump off and on the lift gate to the pavement.

Knee started to hurt throughout shift.

Knee strain

jumping on and off lift gate

Knee

Job description
Truck Driver
SOC code
53-3032 — Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
NAICS code
111422 — Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
85
Total hours worked
162725
EIN
61045945
Establishment ID
805492
Employer case #
6
Date of incident
Shift started
3:19:00.000
Submitted
08JAN24:20:05:00

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.