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OSHA Injury Report: Bowles Farming Company

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Bowles Farming Company in Los Banos, CA 93635 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was heavy Equipment Operator in melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production.

Establishment
Bowles Farming Company
Parent company
Bowles Farming Company
Street
11609 Hereford Rd.
City
Los Banos
State
CA
ZIP
93635
On-site location
Field
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

The employee was working driving the backhoe with an enclosed cabin. He had to step out to fix a drain pipe problem. He opened and left the cabin open.

A bee got inside the driver 's cabin.

The employee got stunk by bee on left eye.

The bee

Stunk by a bee

Job description
Heavy Equipment Operator
SOC code
45-2091 — Agricultural Equipment Operators
NAICS code
111219 — Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
64
Total hours worked
136446
EIN
770179150
Establishment ID
983986
Employer case #
990103
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
10:30:00.000
Submitted
08FEB24:20:19:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.