Hiram, OH ·
OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese in 17825 Great Lakes Pkwy, Hiram, OH 44234 resulted in days away from work. Employee was bulk Cheese Handler in cheese merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Great Lakes Cheese
- Parent company
- Great Lakes Cheese
- Street
- 17825 Great Lakes Pkwy
- City
- Hiram
- State
- OH
- ZIP
- 44234
- On-site location
- Line 150
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 180
Before the incident
Loading cheese onto production line
What happened
Employee reported that repetitively lifting 40 lb blocks of cheese to the production line caused intense pain.
Injury or illness
Herniated disc and lumbar root nerve disorder
Object or substance involved
Cheese blocks
Summary line
Herniated discs and lumbar nerve root disorder from lifting cheese blocks
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Bulk Cheese Handler
- SOC code
- 53-7062: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 424430: Cheese merchant wholesalers
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,060
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 2,166,221
- EIN
- 341015620
- Establishment ID
- 1370064
- Employer case #
- 13-25
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-20
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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