St. Paul, MN ·
OSHA Injury Report: Baldinger Bakery St. Paul, MN
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Baldinger Bakery St. Paul, MN in 1256 Phalen Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55106 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was operator in rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Baldinger Bakery St. Paul, MN
- Parent company
- C.H. Guenther & Son LLC
- Street
- 1256 Phalen Blvd
- City
- St. Paul
- State
- MN
- ZIP
- 55106
- On-site location
- Packaging Room - Line 2 Packer 5 Slicer (non-operator side)
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 8
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
- Job description
- Operator
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 311812: Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 165
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 387,624
- EIN
- 741508677
- Establishment ID
- 943214
- Employer case #
- 59
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 05:15
- Time of incident
- 08:05
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-09
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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