Denver, CO —
OSHA Injury Report: TORTUGA AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at TORTUGA AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. in Denver, CO 80221 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was robot Operator in fruit, machine harvesting.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- TORTUGA AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Parent company
- Tortuga AgTech
- Street
- 5075 Kalamath St
- City
- Denver
- State
- CO
- ZIP
- 80221
- On-site location
- PLB
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Bringing a robot back to the container
What happened
On [REDACTED] while on the second shift and having completed the UVC in Phase 7 [REDACTED] had returned the second to last robot back to the container and [REDACTED] was waiting for the last robot to complete the tractor row before returning it to the container. On his way back from the container around [REDACTED] the light from the sun was almost completely gone the lights from the robot were the only light. [REDACTED] had nothing obstructing his vision as he was driving the robot back he turned his left ankle on a very deep dip along the main road of the farm. It wasn’t something that he could see ahead of time with the low lighting. He felt a sharp pain but it didn’t linger so he didn’t think much of it until the following morning when his ankle was really swollen. He missed the following two days of work while the swelling and pain went away.
Injury or illness
Turned his left ankle on a very deep dip along the main road of the farm.
Object or substance involved
Dip in the road
Summary line
Turned his left ankle on a very deep dip along the main road of the farm.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Robot Operator
- SOC code
- 11-9013 — Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- NAICS code
- 115113 — Fruit, machine harvesting
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 46
- Total hours worked
- 93771
- EIN
- 811925352
- Establishment ID
- 1174648
- Employer case #
- 10206650
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 11:30:00.000
- Time of incident
- 19:40:00.000
- Submitted
- 27FEB24:14:35:00
Source
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.