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

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Flowers Baking Co. of Batesville, LLC in Batesville, AR 72501 resulted in days away from work. Employee was engineering Technician 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
Engineering Shop
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1

While working on reassembling [REDACTED] belt on east end workbench with fan on behind the employee. After approximately 10 minutes the employee felt something in left upper eyelid. The Employee proceeded to attempt to close eye and wiped gently with a paper towel. Employee came into office and notified Engineering Lead man in charge at the time. employee went to eyewash station to attempt to remove debris. The Employee asked another Engineer technician if he could see anything in his eye engineer stated it looked like employee had a few scratches. The employee then informed Engineering Lead he was going to seek medical care and left the facility.

While working on reassembling [REDACTED] belt on east end workbench with fan on behind the employee. After approximately 10 minutes the employee felt something in left upper eyelid. The Employee proceeded to attempt to close eye and wiped gently with a paper towel. Employee came into office and notified Engineering Lead man in charge at the time. employee went to eyewash station to attempt to remove debris. The Employee asked another Engineer technician if he could see anything in his eye engineer stated it looked like employee had a few scratches. The employee then informed Engineering Lead he was going to seek medical care and left the facility.

Eye Irritation Eye Left Eye

Dust Debris

Eye irritation left eye small object or piece of debris made contact with left eye

Job description
Engineering Technician
SOC code
17-3029 — Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All
NAICS code
311812 — Commercial bakeries
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
239
Total hours worked
483279
Establishment ID
1121683
Employer case #
174
Date of incident
Shift started
15:00
Time of incident
15:30
Filing year
2025
Submitted
28JAN26:18:25:00

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.