VAN WERT, OH —
OSHA Injury Report: VW Cooked Meats Plant
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at VW Cooked Meats Plant in VAN WERT, OH 45891 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was raw Side Support in poultry Processing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- VW Cooked Meats Plant
- Parent company
- Cooper Farms
- Street
- 6793 US RT 127 N
- City
- VAN WERT
- State
- OH
- ZIP
- 45891
- On-site location
- Injection room 2
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Flipping meat to feed into the injector
What happened
OVEREXERTION TM stated she has pain in her left shoulder that started in [REDACTED] TM stated when she fills in due to absenteeism flipping birds She has pain in her left shoulder when she goes back to her normal job she does not have any issues Several times over the year she has had to fill in and has pain every time She felt pain yesterday [REDACTED] while filling in and decided to go home for the day called off work today [REDACTED] and came in to fill out an incident report
Injury or illness
Pain and Soreness of Shoulders Left Side
Object or substance involved
Parts and Materials Parts and materials unspecified
Summary line
Pain and Soreness of Shoulders Left Side Directly harmed by overuse
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Raw Side Support
- SOC code
- 51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 311615 — Poultry Processing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 714
- Total hours worked
- 1295005
- EIN
- 344852946
- Establishment ID
- 1145368
- Employer case #
- FY25-0054
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 6:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 12FEB26:14:03:00
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.