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OSHA Injury Report: Cottonwood Dairy

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Cottonwood Dairy in Cottonwood, MN 56229 resulted in days away from work. Employee was maintenance Technician in milk production, dairy cattle.

Establishment
Cottonwood Dairy
Parent company
Alpha Foods
Street
4761 170th Ave
City
Cottonwood
State
MN
ZIP
56229
On-site location
Backside of Parlor
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
33

Employee was called in to work on a crowd gate that moves the cows to the parlor

He hit the reset button on the gate and was showing another employee how to operate it

crushing his right finger

gate

foreign body eye right side from foreign body

Job description
Maintenance Technician
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
112120 — Milk production, dairy cattle
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
24
Total hours worked
71032
EIN
61688891
Establishment ID
1182786
Employer case #
2023-12
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
8:25:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:16:34:00

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.