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OSHA Injury Report: 00051282-050035 VAN METER, INC. - COTTAGE GROVE

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at 00051282-050035 VAN METER, INC. - COTTAGE GROVE in COTTAGE GROVE, MN 55016 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was commodities Tea in electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers.

Establishment
00051282-050035 VAN METER, INC. - COTTAGE GROVE
Parent company
Elite Distributors Insurance Company VAN METER, INC. - COTTAGE GROVE
Street
7450 95TH STREET SOUTH
City
COTTAGE GROVE
State
MN
ZIP
55016
On-site location
JOB SITE
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
114

PRYING 2X4 BOARD

[REDACTED] was prying the 2x4 off the cradles with pry bar so he could put the spools away in our racking when he felt a pop in his right elbow

Strained Right Elbow Pushing or pulling Pry bar

Pry bar

EE was prying the 2x4 off the cradles with pry bar so he could put the spools away in our racking

Job description
Commodities Tea
SOC code
41-4010 — Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
NAICS code
423610 — Electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
209
Total hours worked
405900
EIN
421448821
Establishment ID
1473476
Employer case #
3149
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
6:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
16FEB26:19:17:00

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.