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 service Forklift Stuffer 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
- Plant 1 Stuffing
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 34
Before the incident
Lifting casing boxes
What happened
Employee stated he was having hip and lower back pain. He first disclosed he first notcied the pain getting out of his car. ON [REDACTED] he stated it was due to lifting boxes. When asked why he wrote lifting boxes when he previously stated he first noticed the pain getting out of his vehicle he stated he had to write something down as the cause of the injury.
Injury or illness
Radiculopathy in mid and lower back
Object or substance involved
casing boxes
Summary line
Radiculopathy in mid and lower back from casing boxes
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Service Forklift Stuffer
- SOC code
- 53-7051: Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- 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 #
- 9114
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 04:00
- Time of incident
- 04:30
- 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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