Ankeny, IA ·
OSHA Injury Report: John Deere Des Moines Works
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at John Deere Des Moines Works in 825 SW Irvinedale Drive, Ankeny, IA 50023 resulted in days away from work. Employee was assembler in cotton picker and stripper harvesting machinery manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- John Deere Des Moines Works
- Parent company
- John Deere
- Street
- 825 SW Irvinedale Drive
- City
- Ankeny
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 50023
- On-site location
- 40C
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
- Days restricted or transferred
- 179
Before the incident
EE states he was lifting and pulling out doffer from a rack. EE states that sometimes the doffers get stuck or caught on the shelving and to get them out you have to use some pushing and pulling force.
What happened
EE stats that when he was pulling a doffer from the bottom shelf of a rack he had some acute pain in his back.
Injury or illness
Back injury
Object or substance involved
lifting the doffer
Summary line
Back injury lifting the doffer
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Assembler
- SOC code
- 51-2099: Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
- NAICS code
- 333111: Cotton picker and stripper harvesting machinery manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,578
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,953,707
- Establishment ID
- 1137658
- Employer case #
- 251955507
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 11:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-27
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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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