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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 machine Operator 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 3
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
7

After completing the weekly wash the IE was in the process of moving the top lid to the Urschel shred head housing back into place.

The IE 's hand slipped and contacted an area that had become sharp on the edge of the lid.

The IE received a laceration under the ring finger on his left hand that required 3 stitches.

Stainless steel Ursched lid

Right ring finger laceration

Job description
Machine Operator
SOC code
51-3099 — Food Processing Workers, All Other
NAICS code
424430 — Cheese merchant wholesalers
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
280
Total hours worked
635965
Establishment ID
932976
Employer case #
8
Date of incident
Shift started
14:00
Time of incident
22:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
28JAN2025:21:01:00

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.