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OSHA Injury Report: Caro Nut Company

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Caro Nut Company in FRESNO, CA 93706 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was machine Operator in roasted nuts and seeds manufacturing.

Establishment
Caro Nut Company
Parent company
Caro Nut Company
Street
2885 S CHERRY AVE
City
FRESNO
State
CA
ZIP
93706
On-site location
Line 3 Jar Unloading Area
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
88

Employee was cutting the stretch wrap from a pallet of empty jars to be used on the production line.

As the employee was bent down cutting the stretch wrap a forklift driver came to supply the line with more pallets of empty jars. Forklift driver pushed 2 pallets of empty jars into the pallet the employee was working on. This caused the injured employee to be struck in the head by the empty jars and stepped back quickly to avoid the pallet.

Contusion of head cervical muscle strain strain of thoracic spine

Pallet of empty jars

Employee received head contusion & cervical and thoracic spine strains when she was pushed back by the pallet she was was cutting wrap from when a forklift driver had pushed 2 other pallets of jars into the pallet the injured employee was working on.

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
NAICS code
311911 — Roasted nuts and seeds manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
204
Total hours worked
423590
EIN
263692377
Establishment ID
918106
Employer case #
2
Date of incident
Shift started
14:00:00.000
Time of incident
20:28:00.000
Submitted
12JAN24:18:04:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.