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OSHA Injury Report: Hormel Foods

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Hormel Foods in Knoxville, IA 50138 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production in sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses.

Establishment
Hormel Foods
Parent company
Hormel Foods
Street
209 N Godfrey Ln
City
Knoxville
State
IA
ZIP
50138
On-site location
Stripout Room
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Adjusting vacuum shoe on stripout machine.

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.

Right ring finger abrasion.

Machine bolt

Abrasion right ring finger stripout machine

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
Avg employees
220
Total hours worked
426624
EIN
410319970
Establishment ID
1296931
Employer case #
25-2
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
23FEB26:17:02:00

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.