# Fractures at WHITESIDES DAIRY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025077043` · 7/19/2025 · RUPERT, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by door, gate, window
- **Source:** Powered cattle gates
- **Secondary source:** Milking parlor equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** WHITESIDES DAIRY, INC.
- **Location:** Undefined 700 East Road, RUPERT, IDAHO, 83350
- **NAICS:** 112120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in a holding pen, using a crowd gate to herd cows into milking stalls. She was moving to beat the crowd gate to a manhole, but the gate moved and struck the employee. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured processes in her lower vertebrae.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*