Homestead, FL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Brooks Tropicals, LLC
Other illness · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an other illness at Brooks Tropicals, LLC in 18400 SW 256 Street, Homestead, FL 33031 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was grafter in avocado farming.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Brooks Tropicals, LLC
- Parent company
- Brooks Tropicals, LLC
- Street
- 18400 SW 256 Street
- City
- Homestead
- State
- FL
- ZIP
- 33031
- On-site location
- Grove
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Other illness (code 6)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 2
Before the incident
Pulling vines
What happened
Stung by [REDACTED]
Injury or illness
Insect sting
Object or substance involved
caterpillar
Summary line
Pulling vines in grove and was stung by left eye by a fuzzy caterpillar
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Grafter
- SOC code
- 45-2092: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- NAICS code
- 111339: Avocado farming
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 117
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 211,950
- EIN
- 743204606
- Establishment ID
- 98448
- Employer case #
- 8
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 13:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-11
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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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