Grinnell, IA —
OSHA Injury Report: Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen in Grinnell, IA 50112 resulted in days away from work. Employee was kitchen Lead in prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen
- Parent company
- Purfoods, LLC DBA Mom's Meals
- Street
- 810 Blakely Circle
- City
- Grinnell
- State
- IA
- ZIP
- 50112
- On-site location
- Kitchen
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 6
Before the incident
Kitchen Lead was manually harvesting cranberry sauce out of kettle #2 onto sheet trays.
What happened
[REDACTED] Lead was repetitively scooping and reaching into the kettle from the waist to get sauce out due to the paddles not lifting up like it was supposed. As the [REDACTED] Lead moved onto another task he felt pain in his back.
Injury or illness
Acute bilateral low back pain without sciatica
Object or substance involved
Bending over from the waist & reaching with a scoop.
Summary line
Injured his back repetitively scooping & bending over to harvest cranberry sauce out of kettle #2.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Kitchen Lead
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 311991 — Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 94
- Total hours worked
- 170475
- EIN
- 412096639
- Establishment ID
- 547050
- Employer case #
- W2C26728
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 9:00
- Time of incident
- 14:35
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 10JAN2025:18:50:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.