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OSHA Injury Report: Gemstone Foods LLC. Florence

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Gemstone Foods LLC. Florence in Florence, AL 35630 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was maintenance Technician in chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food).

Establishment
Gemstone Foods LLC. Florence
Parent company
Gemstone Foods
Street
700 s wood ave
City
Florence
State
AL
ZIP
35630
On-site location
IQF 1 Pacmac
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

He stated that he had just changed the zipper line on the [REDACTED] Pacmac bagging machine and was in the process of adjusting the bag film to line it up correctly.

While the machine was running he reached up under it to grab the bags that were jammed and not lined up correctly when his hand was caught in the machine heater bars.

Fractures contusions and lacerations to his left hand.

Pacmac bagger heater bars.

Fractures contusions and lacerations to left hand from the Pacmac heater bars.

Job description
Maintenance Technician
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
311615 — Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food)
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
174
Total hours worked
306818
EIN
453587389
Establishment ID
1066405
Employer case #
2306
Date of incident
Shift started
14:00:00.000
Time of incident
23:30:00.000
Submitted
24JAN24:19:48:00

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.