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OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Smithfield in Denison, IA 51442 resulted in days away from work. Employee was miscellaneous Labor in pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants.

Establishment
Smithfield
Parent company
Smithfield
Street
800 Industrial Drive
City
Denison
State
IA
ZIP
51442
On-site location
Cut Floor
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

Employee was trimming fat off hams at the ham classifier.

Employee cut himself at base of LT thumb with straight knife. When he removed his gloves he saw his own blood and passed out face first to the ground causing a laceration to upper lift and abrasions to nose chin and left thumb. Employee 's nose also painful from impact.

Laceration upper lip laceration base of left thumb abrasion on nose chin and left thumb pain in nose.

Passing out and hitting the floor with face after cutting self with knife.

Lacration upper lift laceration base of left thumb abrasions on nose chin and left thumb Pain in nose from passing out and hitting floor with face after cutting self with knife.

Job description
Miscellaneous Labor
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
311611 — Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1042
Total hours worked
2555010
Establishment ID
1502043
Employer case #
24679
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
6:55
Filing year
2025
Submitted
25FEB26:13:27:00

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.