Hanover, PA —
OSHA Injury Report: Plant 4 P4
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Plant 4 P4 in Hanover, PA 17331 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was processing Operator in other Snack Food Manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Plant 4 P4
- Parent company
- Utz Quality Foods LLC
- Street
- 101 Kindig Ln
- City
- Hanover
- State
- PA
- ZIP
- 17331
- On-site location
- Processing Line 11
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- -9999
- Days restricted or transferred
- -9999
Before the incident
Dumping cheese into slurry application tank
What happened
The slurry transfer pump broke leading Associate to have to manually scoop slurry cheese from the mixing tank and dump into the application tank. He did so while the machine was still running and in so doing his left pinky finger got crushed by the spinning auger within the tank fracturing his pinky.
Injury or illness
Broken Bone; Bruise; Other
Object or substance involved
Slurry mixing tank auger
Summary line
Throbbing pain severe swelling moderate redness and bruising two puncture wounds on the finger intermittent tingling pain radiates to the hand hurts to bend the finger
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Processing Operator
- SOC code
- 51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 311919 — Other Snack Food Manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 346
- Total hours worked
- 818448
- EIN
- 231292435
- Establishment ID
- 1440436
- Employer case #
- 26085783
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:20
- Time of incident
- 3:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 30JAN26:19:56:00
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.