Knoxville, IA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Hormel Foods
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Hormel Foods in 209 N Godfrey Ln, Knoxville, IA 50138 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production in sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Hormel Foods
- Parent company
- Hormel Foods
- Street
- 209 N Godfrey Ln
- City
- Knoxville
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 50138
- On-site location
- Stripout Room
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Adjusting vacuum shoe on stripout machine.
What happened
Operator was unjamming casing and struck his finger on a bolt. Employee asked for a band aid in medical. [REDACTED] employee developed an infection on his finger.
Injury or illness
Right ring finger abrasion.
Object or substance involved
Machine bolt
Summary line
Abrasion right ring finger stripout machine
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Production
- SOC code
- 51-9111: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 311612: Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 220
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 426,624
- EIN
- 410319970
- Establishment ID
- 1296931
- Employer case #
- 25-2
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-23
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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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