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OSHA Injury Report: Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

At a glance

On , an injury at Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene in 2670 Great Lakes Drive, Abilene, TX 79602 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was machine Operator in cheese merchant wholesalers.

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Where did this happen?

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 1

What was the outcome?

Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
8

Before the incident

Changing the knife blade in the Hayssen on line 2.

What happened

The employee grabbed the blade to remove it with the hand that did not have the cut rated glove on.

Injury or illness

Laceration resulting in stitches.

Object or substance involved

Hayssen knife blade

Summary line

Left index finger laceration

Employee and industry

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 #
5

When (timing detail)

Date of incident
Shift started
18:55
Time of incident
5:00
Filing year
2024
Submitted
28JAN2025:20:37:00

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Source

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.