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OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene in Abilene, TX 79602 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator Debox in cheese merchant wholesalers.

Establishment
Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene
Parent company
Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc.
Street
2670 Great Lakes Drive
City
Abilene
State
TX
ZIP
79602
On-site location
Deboxing Room
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
4

Attempting to break stretch swap that had failed to be cut by the stretch wrapper blade.

When the IE pulled on the wrap there was tension which pulled his hand down into the blade.

Laceration to the tip of the right index finger.

Knife blade on the pallet stretch wrapper.

Right index finger laceration

Job description
Machine Operator Debox
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
424430 — Cheese merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
280
Total hours worked
635965
Establishment ID
932976
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
18:00
Time of incident
3:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
28JAN2025:19:55:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.