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OSHA Injury Report: Maine Beer Company

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Maine Beer Company in Freeport, ME 4032 resulted in days away from work. Employee was brewer III in brewery.

Establishment
Maine Beer Company
Parent company
Maine Beer Company
Street
525 US 1
City
Freeport
State
ME
ZIP
4032
On-site location
Production floor
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
182

Employee was stepping up onto the open grain auger in order to hit the grease points. During push off from stair employees knee rotated inward and felt a sharp pain and heard a noise. Swelling developed and pain remained.

The employees knee rotated while stepping up a stair and caused the employee to tear their ACL. Needed surgery.

Full tear of ACL.

Stairs.

Employee was stepping up onto spent grain auger and felt knee rotate inwards causing pain.

Job description
Brewer III
SOC code
51-9012 — Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
NAICS code
312120 — Brewery
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
106
Total hours worked
191142
EIN
264037079
Establishment ID
1042043
Employer case #
240509
Date of incident
Shift started
11:55
Time of incident
20:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
04MAR2025:17:04:00

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.