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OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc.

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. in Hiram, OH 442E6 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was bulk Cheese Handler in dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc.
Parent company
Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc.
Street
17955 Great Lakes Parkway
City
Hiram
State
OH
ZIP
442E6
On-site location
Line 2
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Loading cheese on to line 2.

Employee was operating the manipulator on line 102. As he picked up a Swiss double (roughly 200 LBS) he attempted to remove the blue plastic off the cheese. As the employee forcefully pulled on the plastic the cheese became free of the manipulators suction and fell. This sent the manipulator upwards rapidly striking him in the chin before he could move. As a result he received a gash under his chin measuring roughly half an inch in width and a headache.

Laceration

The manipulator

While operating a manipulator holding a double block of swiss cheese the employee forcefully pulled on blue plastic stuck to the cheese which caused the cheese to fall and the manipulator to bounce up striking the employee on the chin.

Job description
Bulk Cheese Handler
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
424430 — Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
984
Total hours worked
1992325
EIN
341015620
Establishment ID
1069681
Employer case #
23-Aug
Date of incident
Shift started
0:00:00.000
Time of incident
23:00:00.000
Submitted
25JAN24:23:39:00

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