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OSHA Injury Report: Berner Dakota

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Berner Dakota in Dakota, IL 61018 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was cheese in manufacturer of cheese snacks and beverages - coffee lattes.

Establishment
Berner Dakota
Parent company
Berner Dakota
Street
2034 E. Factory Road
City
Dakota
State
IL
ZIP
61018
On-site location
L2 Blend n Grind
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
33

Reassembly of equipment

[REDACTED] was pushing the mobile platform to the grinder. He smashed his right pinky finger between the mobile platform and cheese lift. [REDACTED] came and got me his supervisor right away and we went into the production office where he sat down he began to turn pail and fainted for a couple seconds causing him to fall out of his chair I then called [REDACTED] and requested an ambulance [REDACTED] was taken to Freeport Memorial hospital.

Fracture

Caught finger between platform and lift

fracture of right pinky finger.

Job description
Cheese
SOC code
51-3092 — Food Batchmakers
NAICS code
311513 — Manufacturer of cheese snacks and beverages - coffee lattes
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
725
Total hours worked
1626790
EIN
36-283962
Establishment ID
1183207
Employer case #
296
Date of incident
Shift started
18:00:00.000
Time of incident
15:25:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:17:16:00

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.