OSHA Injury Report: Baldinger Bakery St. Paul, MN

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Two hours and fifty minutes into their shift a team member recently past their first 90 days with the company was working together with a team member of eighteen months experience to change the bun slicing blade on line 2 packer 5. The newer team member was on the non-operator side of the slicer positioning their end of the band blade onto the de-tensioned mounting wheel. The fingers of their right hand were between the closest point of the wheel and the inside of the guarding framework when the more-experienced team member moved the lever to restore the mounting wheels to their outward full-tension position. As the wheels moved outward the newer operators right ring finger was caught between the wheel and the framework resulting in a fracture of the proximal phalanx finger bone of the right ring finger of the operator. Their is only one tension lever on this slicer it is on the operator side of the equipment and moves both blade driving wheels inward and outward simultaneously. When f

What happened

Two hours and fifty minutes into their shift a team member recently past their first 90 days with the company was working together with a team member of eighteen months experience to change the bun slicing blade on line 2 packer 5. The newer team member was on the non-operator side of the slicer positioning their end of the band blade onto the de-tensioned mounting wheel. The fingers of their right hand were between the closest point of the wheel and the inside of the guarding framework when the more-experienced team member moved the lever to restore the mounting wheels to their outward full-tension position. As the wheels moved outward the newer operators right ring finger was caught between the wheel and the framework resulting in a fracture of the proximal phalanx finger bone of the right ring finger of the operator. Their is only one tension lever on this slicer it is on the operator side of the equipment and moves both blade driving wheels inward and outward simultaneously. When f

Injury or illness

Contusion Bruise Finger Right Ring Finger

Object or substance involved

Packer 5 Non-Operator Side Slicer Drive Wheel and surrounding framework

Summary line

Hand injured when caught between a slicer drive wheel and machine guard.

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

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