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OSHA Injury Report: Flowers Baking Co. of Batesville, LLC

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Flowers Baking Co. of Batesville, LLC in Batesville, AR 72501 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was production Supervisor in commercial bakeries.

Establishment
Flowers Baking Co. of Batesville, LLC
Parent company
Flowers Foods
Street
1223 south Saint Louis Street
City
Batesville
State
AR
ZIP
72501
On-site location
Bread Make up Area
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
180

While setting up bread make up pre start up employee was attempting to move the A.D.D into place grabbed the A.D.D by the handles and attempted to solo move the unit by twisting left and right and pulling after a few moments and the divider not moving the employee called engineering out to the area. The engineer began struggling to move the divider so the employee stepped in from the west side and attempted to assist in moving the divider. After the divider was back in place the employee returned upstairs and realized their back was hurting.

While setting up bread make up pre start up employee was attempting to move the A.D.D into place grabbed the A.D.D by the handles and attempted to solo move the unit by twisting left and right and pulling after a few moments and the divider not moving the employee called engineering out to the area. The engineer began struggling to move the divider so the employee stepped in from the west side and attempted to assist in moving the divider. After the divider was back in place the employee returned upstairs and realized their back was hurting.

Strain Back Lower Back

Weight of bread A.D.D divider inability to roll the unit on casters

Strain back lower back weight of bread A.D.D divider inability to move due to worn casters forceful extertion

Job description
Production Supervisor
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
311812 — Commercial bakeries
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
239
Total hours worked
483279
Establishment ID
1121683
Employer case #
173
Date of incident
Shift started
16:00
Time of incident
17:20
Filing year
2025
Submitted
28JAN26:18:20:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.