# Fractures at Great Lakes Cheese, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021054033` · 5/17/2021 · WAUSAU, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Lakes Cheese, Inc.
- **Location:** 9912 Innovation Way, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, 54401
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 5/17/2021, an employee was removing a broken harp wire from a giant block of cheese when the employee's arm was caught between the push plate and the frame holding the harp, resulting in an arm fracture.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*