Linkwood, MD ·
OSHA Injury Report: Darling Ingredients - Linkwood
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Darling Ingredients - Linkwood in 5420 Linkwood Road, Linkwood, MD 21835 resulted in days away from work. Employee was utility Yard Worker in fats, animal, rendering.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Darling Ingredients - Linkwood
- Parent company
- Darling Ingredients
- Street
- 5420 Linkwood Road
- City
- Linkwood
- State
- MD
- ZIP
- 21835
- On-site location
- Blood unloading area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 34
Before the incident
Getting out of the yard dog
What happened
Employee was found laying unconscious and bleeding from his nose next to a jockey truck in the blood unloading area by a yard driver passing by on a forklift. EMS was called to the scene and were able to wake the employee and transported him to the emergency room in [REDACTED]. After examining the employee and running x-rays the medical provider found that he suffered a skull fracture on the right side of his head had a brain bleed and also suffered a broken clavicle on the left side of his body. The employee is being submitted to the ICU unit at this time. They intend to x-ray him again at a later time to see if they could determine whether the bleeding has stopped.
Injury or illness
Fractured skull brain bleed fractured clavicle
Object or substance involved
The ground
Summary line
Fractured skull brain bleed fractured clavicle from falling off a jockey truck
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Utility Yard Worker
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 311613: Fats, animal, rendering
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 145
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 280,186
- EIN
- 362495346
- Establishment ID
- 1107695
- Employer case #
- FY23-00974
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-06
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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