Richmond, IN —
OSHA Injury Report: Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC in Richmond, IN 47374 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was extruder Operator in animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC
- Parent company
- Blue Buffalo
- Street
- 4748 West Industries Road
- City
- Richmond
- State
- IN
- ZIP
- 47374
- On-site location
- Extrusion
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 21
Before the incident
Water flush through extruder barrel during a scheduled changeover
What happened
Flush failed to dislodge internal blockage. Operator used a metal crowbar to to manually dislodge the blockage. The internal rotating screw was still moving the pry bar was forcibly ripped from operators hand
Injury or illness
Avulsion fracture to left hand
Object or substance involved
Metal pry bar
Summary line
Cleaning machine with crowbar caused a avulsion fracture in left hand
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Extruder Operator
- SOC code
- 51-9041 — Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, O
- NAICS code
- 311111 — Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 289
- Total hours worked
- 524386
- EIN
- 352560017
- Establishment ID
- 563312
- Employer case #
- 10
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 19:00
- Time of incident
- 4:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 27FEB26:14:10:00
Source
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.