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OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese in Hiram, OH 44234 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator in cheese merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Great Lakes Cheese
Parent company
Great Lakes Cheese
Street
17825 Great Lakes Pkwy
City
Hiram
State
OH
ZIP
44234
On-site location
Line 113
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
21
Days restricted or transferred
45

Standing next to an employee utilizing a manipulator (lifting device) so they could assume to position

While waiting to take over the task the manipulator lost suction due to improper application and fell several inches onto a stack of plastic box. One plastic box then struck the knees of the employee waiting to take over.

Contusion to left and right knee

Plastic box

Contusion to left and right knee from contact with plastic box

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-9199 — Production Workers, All Other
NAICS code
424430 — Cheese merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
1060
Total hours worked
2166221
EIN
341015620
Establishment ID
1370064
Employer case #
25-25
Date of incident
Shift started
6:40
Time of incident
14:20
Filing year
2025
Submitted
20FEB26:20:33:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.