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OSHA Injury Report: GF Idaho Plant - Caldwell

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at GF Idaho Plant - Caldwell in Caldwell, ID 83607 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was heavy Mobile Equipment Operator in frozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing.

Establishment
GF Idaho Plant - Caldwell
Parent company
JR Simplot Co.
Street
16733 Simplot Blvd
City
Caldwell
State
ID
ZIP
83607
On-site location
Loading Dock
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Driving forklift

Employee was working on an inbound. One of the pallets had damage cases at the bottom. So the employee used the clamp machine to move the good cases off of the damaged case. Once the good cases had been set aside the team began picking up the damaged cases. The team stacked a couple cases onto the good pallet. As the employee leaned over to pick up a case that had product coming out the side he felt a shooting pain in his lower back that caused him to release the case immediately and grab hold

back strain

Picking up a case

Employee leaned over to pick up a case that had product coming out the side he felt a shooting pain in his lower back that caused him to release the case immediately and grab hold of the clamp to get his balance.

Job description
Heavy Mobile Equipment Operator
SOC code
53-7199 — Material Moving Workers, All Other
NAICS code
311411 — Frozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
561
Total hours worked
1222726
EIN
820196611
Establishment ID
1155857
Employer case #
20233739
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00:00.000
Time of incident
11:00:00.000
Submitted
23FEB24:20:16:00

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.