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OSHA Injury Report: Flowers Baking Company of Knoxville

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Flowers Baking Company of Knoxville in Knoxville, TN 37921 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Supervisor in bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries.

Establishment
Flowers Baking Company of Knoxville
Parent company
Flowers Baking Company of Knoxville
Street
3100 North West Park Dr
City
Knoxville
State
TN
ZIP
37921
On-site location
Bun line metal detector
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Bun line metal detector had a jam up. Employee had conveyor stopped as it stopped the retracting belt pulled back and had a bun on the side of the belt. Since employees had stopped conveyor employee reached into retracting belt to remove bun while removing bun retracting bun went back to normal operating position due to pneumatics still being operational and not interlocked with start stop button and caught employees hand

Bun line metal detector had a jam up. Employee had conveyor stopped as it stopped the retracting belt pulled back and had a bun on the side of the belt. Since employees had stopped conveyor employee reached into retracting belt to remove bun while removing bun retracting bun went back to normal operating position due to pneumatics still being operational and not interlocked with start stop button and caught employees hand

Contusion bruise hand right hand

Retracting conveyor belt

Contusion bruise hand right hand retracting conveyor belt contact by

Job description
Production Supervisor
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
311812 — Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
244
Total hours worked
481549
Establishment ID
961154
Employer case #
172
Date of incident
Shift started
4:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
29JAN26:19:16:00

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.