Decatur, IL —
OSHA Injury Report: Primary Ingredients LLC
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Primary Ingredients LLC in Decatur, IL 62521 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was team Leader in wet milling corn and other vegetables.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Primary Ingredients LLC
- Parent company
- Primient Primary Ingredients LLC
- Street
- 2200 E. Eldorado St.
- City
- Decatur
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 62521
- On-site location
- 5L tail line and entry chmber 11th floor of 10 bldg
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Operator saw the jet didn 't look right and noticed the entry chamber wasn 't dropping. Operator shut the system down but the level chamber didn 't drop. Operator locked system out and notified coordinator about need for maintenance to help remove the valve. With the tail line and entry chamber full and unable to drain the operator instructed the maintenance team to crack the flanges of the 4 valve and let the hot liquid slowly drain to the floor.
What happened
The level in the entry chamber then proceeded to empty out. At some point the 4 valve was removed and the full 4 pipe was exposed. It is currently not known when and how full the system was when the valve was removed. The individual that was burned was around the 4 pipe when it broke free and splashed the back of his legs. The level in the entry chamber then proceeded to empty out.
Injury or illness
Burn to left calf
Object or substance involved
Hot Liquid (water & syrup)
Summary line
Burn or scald (heat) leg left calf hot liquid form5L tail line (water & Syrup) contact with temperature extremes
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Team Leader
- SOC code
- 51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- NAICS code
- 311221 — Wet milling corn and other vegetables
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 370
- Total hours worked
- 810900
- Establishment ID
- 1148810
- Employer case #
- 261
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:21:00.000
- Time of incident
- 14:00:00.000
- Submitted
- 22FEB24:20:08:00
Source
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.