St Peter, MN —
OSHA Injury Report: Northern Plains Dairy
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Northern Plains Dairy in St Peter, MN 56082 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was cow Pusher in milking dairy cattle.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Northern Plains Dairy
- Parent company
- Trident Dairy Holdings, LLC
- Street
- 45808 391St Ave
- City
- St Peter
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 56082
- On-site location
- Milking Parlor
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 25
Before the incident
Moving cows into the milking parlor
What happened
When moving cows onto the milking parlor 3 cows rushed into one stall and got stuck. The head milker stopped the rotary so employee could help push the cows out of the one stall. After the cows were free the employee was holding onto a metal rail overhead with his left hand when the rotary started back up a metal beam brushed the employees left hand catching employees fingernail and pulling it off.
Injury or illness
Employees finger nail was pulled ripped off on his left hand ring finger causing immediate swelling and bleeding.
Object or substance involved
Metal beam on milking carousel.
Summary line
Employees was holding onto metal railing overhead with his left hand when rotary started back up. Employees fingernail on left ring finger was caught and pulled off by a metal beam. The finger began to bleed and swelling began immediately.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Cow Pusher
- SOC code
- 45-2093 — Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
- NAICS code
- 112120 — Milking dairy cattle
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 29
- Total hours worked
- 65818
- EIN
- 883219680
- Establishment ID
- 934082
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Time of incident
- 19:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 08JAN2025:22:13:00
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.