St. Charles, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield Inc.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Smithfield Inc. in 410 Kirk Road, St. Charles, IL 60174 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was packaging Machine Operator in bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Smithfield Inc.
- Parent company
- Smithfield Foods Inc.
- Street
- 410 Kirk Road
- City
- St. Charles
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 60174
- On-site location
- P4 Packing Doorway
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 178
Before the incident
EE was working on a rework project.
What happened
She was moving a cart with an extra large tote on top of it. When she was pushing the cart through the door from Secondary pack into Primary pack a wheel that was not functioning correctly got stuck and the cart and tote toppled over on top of her. The cart and tote hit her hand and leg. She described having a sharp pain in her right leg that went all the way down to her ankle. She was unable to comfortably apply pressure on that leg and needed assistance walking. She also suffered a bruise on her left hand from the incident.
Injury or illness
Contusion on back of knee and bruised hand
Object or substance involved
the door
Summary line
Contusion on back of knee from from being struck by a door
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Packaging Machine Operator
- SOC code
- 51-9111: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 311612: Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 497
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 1,244,430
- EIN
- 362332471
- Establishment ID
- 880338
- Employer case #
- 6165
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:00
- Time of incident
- 15:15
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-23
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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