OSHA Injury Report: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Normal job duties related to his job such as adding ingredients

What happened

Employee was taking a box of peanuts off of a pallet to dump into ingredient feeder. The pallet of peanuts was on a lift and raised approximately 10 inches off the floor. At the same time that the employee was retrieving the boxes of peanuts another employee lowered the pallet to the floor without realizing that the co-worker 's foot was under the pallet. This resulted in the employee 's right foot being crushed by the pallet which weighed approximately 1200 #. Employee sustained right ankle and foot contusion and given restrictions of seated work only for 1 week.

Injury or illness

ICD-10 S90.01XA Contusion of right ankle initial encounter S90.31XA Contusion of right foot initial encounter ICD-9 924.21 Contusion of ankle 924.20 Contusion of foot

Object or substance involved

pallet lowered onto foot

Summary line

compression to foot

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

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.