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
- Manual Stripout
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Struck by metal bar handled by co-worker.
What happened
Employee was truck by metal bar by a co-worker. Employee developed a contusion to right eye.
Injury or illness
Right eye contusion.
Object or substance involved
Metal bar.
Summary line
Contusion right eye metal bar
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 #
- 25-3
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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