Cudahy, WI ·
OSHA Injury Report: Cudahy Packaged
Respiratory condition · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , a respiratory condition at Cudahy Packaged in 1 Sweet Applewood Lane, Cudahy, WI 53110 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was a Progression Months in bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Cudahy Packaged
- Parent company
- Smithfield Foods Packaged Meats Corp.
- Street
- 1 Sweet Applewood Lane
- City
- Cudahy
- State
- WI
- ZIP
- 53110
- On-site location
- Building M, 4th floor of refinery at the industrial filter
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Respiratory condition (code 3)
Before the incident
Shortly after [REDACTED] [REDACTED] responded to a call of smoke in the refinery. When walking into the room he grabbed a fire extinguisher and assisted to extinguish the filter In the process the employee inhaled some some of the powder from the fire extinguisher and began coughing.
What happened
employee inhaled smoke and powder from ABC fire extinguisher
Injury or illness
Lung irritation due to exposure to fire extinguisher dry chemical
Object or substance involved
ABC dry chemical ammonium phosphate
Summary line
Lung irritation due to exposure to fire extinguisher dry chemical ABC dry chemical ammonium phosphate
Employee and industry
- Job description
- A Progression Months
- SOC code
- 00-9900: Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 311612: Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,022
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,070,019
- EIN
- 362332471
- Establishment ID
- 73189
- Employer case #
- 15719
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00
- Time of incident
- 07:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-03-05
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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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