Loves Park, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford in 5500 Forest Hills Rd, Loves Park, IL 61111 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was generalist in chewing gum manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford
- Parent company
- Perfetti Van Melle USA
- Street
- 5500 Forest Hills Rd
- City
- Loves Park
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 61111
- On-site location
- Gateway-Bulk Bags
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Dumping Bags of soribitol into supersack
What happened
The injured employee cut their right thigh with an approved box cutter while opening 55lb bags of sorbitol in gateway where operators were standing bags on the floor and leaning over to cut them open before dumping contents into a supersack for an upcoming trial.
Injury or illness
Laceration to left thigh
Object or substance involved
Box Cutter
Summary line
Laceration to Left thigh: EE was cutting open bags of material. Followed through with box cutter and cut her left thigh
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Generalist
- SOC code
- 00-9900: Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 311340: Chewing gum manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 384
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 937,102
- EIN
- 042493964
- Establishment ID
- 1090361
- Employer case #
- 9
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 19:30
- Time of incident
- 03:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-09
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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