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OSHA Injury Report: LeMars - Main Store

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at LeMars - Main Store in Le Mars, IA 51031 resulted in days away from work. Employee was asst Mgr Store Ops H in supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores.

Establishment
LeMars - Main Store
Parent company
HY-VEE, INC.
Street
1201 12th Ave SW
City
Le Mars
State
IA
ZIP
51031
On-site location
outside
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
21
Days restricted or transferred
21

Employee was lighting the kitchen 's free standing outdoor grill with a lighter on the side back of the store when it caught it back blasted and burned him.

Employee was outside alone trying to light the Kitchen 's free standing outdoor grill to make sure that it still worked as Kitchen needed to use it for a catering [REDACTED] - [REDACTED] - we believe that when the grill caught it back blasted and burned him. He was able to extinguish the flames or get away from the grill came back into the store under his own power where he paged for [REDACTED] our assistant manager to the back employees who heard the page were all confused by who was paging because no one recognized the voice but we all agree that Employee paged for [REDACTED] to the back for an emergency.

INJURY TYPE: Burn || BODY PART(S) AFFECTED: Multiple Upper Extremities

Employee was using a lighter to attempt to light the Kitchen 's outdoor free standing grill because the Kitchen needed to know if it worked or not for a catering they have tomorrow. When it caught it back blasted and burned him.

Burns on front face neck arms from backfire on the outdoor grill

Job description
Asst Mgr Store Ops H
SOC code
41-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
NAICS code
445110 — Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
108
Total hours worked
131672
EIN
420325638
Establishment ID
1028366
Employer case #
2023-5
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
15:00:00.000
Submitted
29FEB24:15:46:00

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.