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OSHA Injury Report: Almena

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Almena in Almena, WI 54805 resulted in days away from work. Employee was production Attendant II in curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing.

Establishment
Almena
Parent company
Saputo Cheese USA
Street
1052 Sixth Street
City
Almena
State
WI
ZIP
54805
On-site location
Almena
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
7

lifting the brine push pipes off of the side of the brine pit

At approximately [REDACTED] the brine attendant was lifting the brine push pipes off of the side of the brine pit to move them to the next cage. That bracket for the push pipes was on top of a weld seam on the brine pit. At the seam the pit wall is a little wider which causes the bracket for the pipes to sit tighter and it requires more effort to lift the bracket. When the employee initially lifted the bracket and pipes he didn 't feel any pain in his lower back. Then on [REDACTED] when he was working in brine in towards the end of his shift he started to experience pain in his lower back

lower back strain

Brine push pipes

Strain Back (Lower) Both Pushing or Pulling Object(s) being handled by self

Job description
Production Attendant II
SOC code
51-9111 — Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
NAICS code
311513 — Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
295
Total hours worked
518835
Establishment ID
1455850
Employer case #
INJ-00193
Date of incident
Time of incident
15:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
05FEB26:18:31:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.