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OSHA Injury Report: Carthage

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Carthage in Carthage, MO 64836 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Lead in specialty Frozen Foods.

Establishment
Carthage
Parent company
Ajinomoto Foods North America
Street
5691 S Davinci Ln
City
Carthage
State
MO
ZIP
64836
On-site location
Line 1 Mixer
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

The employee had loaded a gondola cart into the mechanism that is designed to lift and dump the gondola cart contents.

The employee was putting a VMAG gondola cart of meat into the mixer. After the VMAG started to lift the employee noticed that it began to slide. The bar guard on the mixing elevator hit the employee in the mouth.

Laceration and puncture to lower lip (complex) through and through & Upper tooth chipped

A bar guard on the production equipment.

Chipped Tooth

Job description
Production Lead
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
311412 — Specialty Frozen Foods
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
176
Total hours worked
356164
Establishment ID
364150
Employer case #
5
Date of incident
Shift started
2:30:00.000
Time of incident
10:24:00.000
Submitted
19FEB24:16:17:00

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.