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OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp in Sioux City, IA 51106 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was laborer Material Handler in processed meats manufacturing.

Establishment
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp
Parent company
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp
Street
1000 Cunningham Dr
City
Sioux City
State
IA
ZIP
51106
On-site location
Hot meat room entrance
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
7

Manually pulling a rack

EE was pulling an empty rack out of the room. He stopped to release the air from a hot box door. When he started pulling the rack again [REDACTED] was pulling a rack of chicken into the room. Neither employee was looking back and the racks struck each other injuring EE 's left hand between the thumb and index finger.

laceration between his left thumb and index finger when the injured employee was pulling a rack and was struck by another employee handling another rack.

metal rack

Laceration between his left thumb and index finger when the injured employee was pulling a rack and was struck by another employee handling another rack. metal rack

Job description
Laborer Material Handler
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
311612 — Processed meats manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
663
Total hours worked
1242471
EIN
362332471
Establishment ID
1148552
Employer case #
2307
Date of incident
Shift started
14:50:00.000
Time of incident
15:53:00.000
Submitted
22FEB24:21:05:00

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.