# Cuts, lacerations at White Hill Cheese Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020021886` · 2/26/2020 · SHULLSBURG, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** White Hill Cheese Company, LLC
- **Location:** 110 Miner Way, SHULLSBURG, WISCONSIN, 53586
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee entered the cheese molding cell after de-activating it to troubleshoot the equipment. When the equipment was re-activated, the cheese lid armature moved and struck the maintenance employee on the face causing a laceration from the forehead to the lower cheek that required surgery.

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