Grand Rapids, MI —
OSHA Injury Report: Butterball Farms, Inc.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Butterball Farms, Inc. in Grand Rapids, MI 49507 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was material Handler in creamery butter manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Butterball Farms, Inc.
- Parent company
- Butterball Farms Inc.
- Street
- 1435 Buchanan Ave SW
- City
- Grand Rapids
- State
- MI
- ZIP
- 49507
- On-site location
- Elevator #1
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 28
Before the incident
Employee was helping move product with the elevator.
What happened
The injured employee was assisting another employee with moving product when he attempted to close the elevator gate door from the outside rather than from the inside. As a result his hand became caught in the gate.
Injury or illness
Left hand and index finger laceration and contusion with suture repair.
Object or substance involved
The elevator gate caused direct harm to the employee.
Summary line
Left index finger and hand laceration and contusion s p suture repair.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Material Handler
- SOC code
- 53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 311512 — Creamery butter manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 157
- Total hours worked
- 294203
- EIN
- 382492895
- Establishment ID
- 1347864
- Employer case #
- 11
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- 10:25
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 27FEB2025:04:18:00
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.