OSHA Injury Report: Flowers Baking Company of Bardstown

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Moving a pan cart

What happened

Employee was moving a cart of pans adjacent to the pan oiler behind molder #1. She slipped on some leaked oil and struck her leg under the oil machine. Her right calf caught on the pan oiler causing a laceration to her right calf. Eye witness to the event indicates the injured employee used her foot to push off from the oiler and that is when she slipped and her leg was injured. Edit: In person interview with employee (6-7-24). I asked employee to tell me what happened. She explained she was staging pans for Giant to begin after a pan change. She acknowledged pulling the cart of pans down into position but pulled up too close. She put her foot down to the floor trying to gain leverage to turn the cart around and unknowingly picked up some pan oil from the floor underneath and when she attempted to take a step she slipped and her foot kicked up and she braced against the oiler and immediately kicked away from it as a reaction. In that motion her foot slipped further and her leg went und

Injury or illness

Laceration

Object or substance involved

Metal edge of the underside on pan oiler machine

Summary line

Laceration to right Achilles tendon

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

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.