Sioux center, IA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield Foods _ Sioux Center IA
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Smithfield Foods _ Sioux Center IA in 251 15th St Ne, Sioux center, IA 51250 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was interleaver Operator in meat extracts made from purchased carcasses.
Where did this happen?
- 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
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 13
Before the incident
[REDACTED] was having a lot of paper drops so employee was replacing the head when her hand was injured
What happened
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
Injury or illness
Bone contusion on left hand and laceration on left pinky finger
Object or substance involved
Interleaver head
Summary line
Bone contusion on left hand and laceration of the left pinky finger from interleaver head
Employee and industry
- 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
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 427
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 896,411
- EIN
- 362332471
- Establishment ID
- 1434275
- Employer case #
- 16331
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 15:00
- Time of incident
- 18:40
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-20
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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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