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OSHA Injury Report: Joplin

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Joplin in Joplin, MO 64804 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was maintenance Lead in specialty Frozen Foods.

Establishment
Joplin
Parent company
Ajinomoto Foods North America
Street
3131 Quail Ave
City
Joplin
State
MO
ZIP
64804
On-site location
Line 2
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Helping another mechanic move equipment to the other side of the production room.

Started moving [REDACTED] offline 2 to install another regular breader. The employee was operating the forklift used to move the equipment. During the act of moving the [REDACTED] it dropped and jerked the fork truck and the employee. He felt a sharp pain in the upper neck back area.

Neck strain

Equipment motion.

Neck Strain

Job description
Maintenance Lead
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
311412 — Specialty Frozen Foods
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
334
Total hours worked
618413
Establishment ID
364220
Employer case #
6
Date of incident
Shift started
17:00:00.000
Time of incident
19:05:00.000
Submitted
25JAN24:17:51:00

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.