OSHA Injury Report: Berner Foods - Dakota

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Getting ready to unload retort 6.

What happened

Injured employee and co-worker were pulling a basket out of [REDACTED] 6. A second co-worker was at the far end of the cart ready to secure the basket to the cart with the pin assembly. The second co-worker inexplicably unlatched both latches holding the cart 's wheels in place. As co-worker and injured worker were pulling the basket out onto the cart the cart moved out of the station toward the second co-worker. The injured employee was holding the basket 's right handle. He could not get his hand out of the way in time. As the basket was falling to the ground the basket struck the injured employee on the top of his right forearm just past his wrist. Injured employee sustained an open wound

Injury or illness

wrist bone fractures and lacerations to right hand and right dorsal forearm

Object or substance involved

struck by falling retort basket and caught between basket falling and the cart.

Summary line

fractures and lacerations to right hand wrist and forearm. Retort basket struck EE and fell

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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.