Tama, IA —
OSHA Injury Report: Iowa Premium
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Iowa Premium in Tama, IA 52339 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was openCut Paunches in beef produced in slaughtering plants.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Iowa Premium
- Parent company
- Iowa Premium
- Street
- 3337 L. Avenue
- City
- Tama
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 52339
- On-site location
- Slaughter (under head chain)
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 10
Before the incident
He was walking from the knife room to his area in the paunch room; as he walked under the head chain he caught his left ear on a tongue hook causing the injury.
What happened
Hook caught his left ear on a tongue hook and caused a 3 cm through horizontal laceration extending from the lateral border of the concha bowl through the helix. No tissue loss noted small cartilaginous fracture was noted near the medial aspect.
Injury or illness
Laceration and FX of the cartilaginous (left ear)
Object or substance involved
Tongue hook on chain
Summary line
Laceration to left ear (Tongue hook)
Employee and industry
- Job description
- OpenCut Paunches
- SOC code
- 51-3022 — Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- NAICS code
- 311611 — Beef produced in slaughtering plants
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 825
- Total hours worked
- 1738728
- EIN
- 274412548
- Establishment ID
- 106054
- Employer case #
- 26
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 7:00
- Time of incident
- 7:10
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 03FEB2025:19:51:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.