PORTALES, NM —
OSHA Injury Report: Ingredients - Drying - Portales NM
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Ingredients - Drying - Portales NM in PORTALES, NM 88130 resulted in days away from work. Employee was evaporator Operator in dry Condensed Evaporated Dairy.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Ingredients - Drying - Portales NM
- Parent company
- Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.
- Street
- 1820 S INDUSTRIAL DR
- City
- PORTALES
- State
- NM
- ZIP
- 88130
- On-site location
- Silo alcove
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 2
Before the incident
The employee was in the [REDACTED] to set up for his CIP on the Evap system.
What happened
While working on hooking up his line another line started CIPing and that line was not capped off.
Injury or illness
2nd degree burns on back
Object or substance involved
Hot caustic and water mixture
Summary line
Burn to upper back due to hot caustic water mixture
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Evaporator Operator
- SOC code
- 51-9012 — Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 311514 — Dry Condensed Evaporated Dairy
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 153
- Total hours worked
- 324388
- EIN
- 810838547
- Establishment ID
- 1027221
- Employer case #
- 2024-472PD
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:00
- Time of incident
- 7:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 07MAR2025:22:12:00
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.