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OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene in Abilene, TX 79602 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was bulk Cheese Handler 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
Pack Hall 2
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
7

The employee was picking up 25lb boxes from a pallet and setting them on a table to rework.

When picking up boxes the employee felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

Lower back muscle strain.

25lb box of cheese.

Lower back strain

Job description
Bulk Cheese Handler
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 #
4
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
12:50
Filing year
2024
Submitted
28JAN2025:20:21:00

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.