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OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield Foods _ Sioux Center IA

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Smithfield Foods _ Sioux Center IA in Sioux center, IA 51250 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was interleaver Operator in meat extracts made from purchased carcasses.

Establishment
Smithfield Foods _ Sioux Center IA
Parent company
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp
Street
251 15th St Ne
City
Sioux center
State
IA
ZIP
51250
On-site location
Line 3 RTE Interleaver
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
13

[REDACTED] was having a lot of paper drops so employee was replacing the head when her hand was injured

EE was changing the interleaver head when she pushed it up to lock it. I did not lock causing it to fall and hit her hand

Bone contusion on left hand and laceration on left pinky finger

Interleaver head

Bone contusion on left hand and laceration of the left pinky finger from interleaver head

Job description
Interleaver Operator
SOC code
51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
NAICS code
311612 — Meat extracts made from purchased carcasses
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
427
Total hours worked
896411
EIN
362332471
Establishment ID
1434275
Employer case #
16331
Date of incident
Shift started
15:00
Time of incident
18:40
Filing year
2025
Submitted
20JAN26:20:48:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.