Agtegra Cooperative: OSHA inspections and violations
Roscoe, South Dakota · Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 424510
8inspections
7citation items
$37,955current penalties
Feb 13, 2026last inspection
Since 2021, OSHA inspectors have visited Agtegra Cooperative in South Dakota 8 times.
The most recent inspection opened on Feb 13, 2026 after a complaint, in Wolsey.
In all, OSHA issued 7 citation items: 6 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
The proposed penalties came to $54,216; today they stand at $37,955, 30% less.
The rule cited most here is Section 5(a)(1) (the General Duty Clause), 2 times.
Among wholesale employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,425 penalty. Agtegra Cooperative averages $9,489 across 4 cited inspections.
2 inspections on this page followed a fatal incident.
Agtegra Cooperative also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Mar 28, 2024 (fatal): Employee is killed when crushed by conveyor
At 9:45 a.m. on March 28, 2024, Employee #1 was moving grain and needed to open the gate on the C-1 bin conveyor, but the gate would not open, so Employee #1 began to troubleshoot the gate. When Employee #1 could not effectively troubleshoot the gate to open, Employee #1 needed to go into the conveyor and trouble shoot further. Employee #1 went to the control room and locked out the C-1 conveyor. A coworker was in the control room at the time Employee #1 locked out the C-1 conveyor. When Employee #1 effectively locked out the C-1 conveyor, Employee #1 left the control room and inadvertently entered the C-3 conveyor and began troubleshooting. The coworker in the control room started the C-3 conveyor to conduct equipment checks for a scheduled train load occurring on March 29. Once the coworker started the C-3 conveyor, the coworker received an alarm that the conveyor had shut down. Employee #1 was completely ingested and dismembered by the conveyor and was killed.
Incident on Jul 14, 2023 (fatal): Employee is killed when caught between heavy machinery
At 2:00 p.m. on July 14, 2023, Employee #1 was standing next to a semi-trailer. Employee #1 was struck by the arm of the spraying equipment and caught between the arm of the sprayer and the trailer of the truck. This occurred as a coworker was driving the sprayer next to the semi-trailer. Employee #1 was crushed and killed when caught between heavy machinery.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2022, the Wolsey site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 20 workers: 3.2 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 0.0 for its industry.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Wolsey Terminal/Fertililzer
Wolsey · 2022
20
1
0
3.2
0.0
Roscoe site
Roscoe · 2019
21
1
0
4.5
0.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.
An employee was having his tractor filled with dry fertilizer. He was on the front section of the tractor's hopper box, about to perform a density check on the fertilizer, when he slipped. A sharp object on the tractor caused a degloving injury to the inside of his right index, middle, and ring fingers.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(a) Machine guarding—(1) Types of guarding. One or more methods of machine guarding shall be provided to protect the operator and other employees in the machine area from hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. Examples of guarding methods are—barrier guards, two-hand tripping devices, electronic safety devices, etc.
29 CFR 1910.219 · Belts, pulleys and power-transmission parts
29 CFR 1910.219(h)(1)
(h) Keys, setscrews, and other projections. (1) All projecting keys, setscrews, and other projections in revolving parts shall be removed or made flush or guarded by metal cover. This subparagraph does not apply to keys or setscrews within gear or sprocket casings or other enclosures, nor to keys, setscrews, or oilcups in hubs of pulleys less than twenty (20) inches in diameter where they are within the plane of the rim of the pulley.
(4) The employer shall implement procedures for the use of tags and locks which will prevent the inadvertent application of energy or motion to equipment being repaired, serviced, or adjusted, which could result in employee injury. Such locks and tags shall be removed in accordance with established procedures only by the employee installing them or, if unavailable, by his or her supervisor.
29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements
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