Denison, IA ·
OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Smithfield in 800 Industrial Drive, 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.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Smithfield
- Parent company
- Smithfield
- Street
- 800 Industrial Drive
- City
- Denison
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 51442
- On-site location
- Cut Floor
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
Before the incident
Employee was trimming fat off hams at the ham classifier.
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Laceration upper lip laceration base of left thumb abrasion on nose chin and left thumb pain in nose.
Object or substance involved
Passing out and hitting the floor with face after cutting self with knife.
Summary line
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.
Employee and industry
- 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
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,042
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,555,010
- Establishment ID
- 1502043
- Employer case #
- 24679
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 06:55
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-25
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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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