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OSHA Injury Report: Smithfield Inc.

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Smithfield Inc. in St. Charles, IL 60174 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was service Forklift Stuffer in bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
34

Lifting casing boxes

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.

Radiculopathy in mid and lower back

casing boxes

Radiculopathy in mid and lower back from casing boxes

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
Avg employees
497
Total hours worked
1244430
EIN
362332471
Establishment ID
880338
Employer case #
9114
Date of incident
Shift started
4:00:00.000
Time of incident
4:30:00.000
Submitted
23FEB24:19:42:00

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.