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OSHA Injury Report: Swift Pork Company Beardstown

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Swift Pork Company Beardstown in Beardstown, IL 62618 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was vOTATOR OPERATOR in pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants.

Establishment
Swift Pork Company Beardstown
Parent company
Swift Pork Company Beardstown
Street
8295 Arenzville Rd.
City
Beardstown
State
IL
ZIP
62618
On-site location
1st/kill/pet food
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
87

Tightening the pet food grinder

EE was tightening the pet food grinder when he lifted it up it went off track causing him to slip off the step and the grinder came down and smashed his left ring finger.

Pet food grinder came down on to left ring finger causing laceration

pet food grinder

Pet food grinder came down on to left ring finger causing laceration pet food grinder

Job description
VOTATOR OPERATOR
SOC code
51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
NAICS code
311611 — Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
2070
Total hours worked
4493811
EIN
201413756
Establishment ID
1435075
Employer case #
148387
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00
Time of incident
8:15
Filing year
2025
Submitted
21JAN26:16:31:00

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.