OSHA Injury Report: Baldinger Bakery St. Paul, MN

At a glance

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What was the outcome?

Before the incident

A packaging tech production operator woke up on their day off one day after they had worked a normally-scheduled shift. They were having difficulty moving without severe discomfort to their lower back on the right-hand side. The operator called into work 23 hours after their approximation of the time of incident and stated to their supervisor that they had strained their back near the end of the previous days shift. They stated they did not report the pain immediately because the pain was mild at the time. When asked about the moment of injury the operator said it was from lifting 20 gallon waste buckets to dump into larger food waste dumpsters and pushing the larger food waste dumpsters to the compactor room from the packaging area; stating some of the larger dumpsters have wheels that do not roll easily and take considerable exertion to move. The operator has been with the company for eight years working as a packaging tech for almost all of that time. They were nearing the end of th

What happened

A packaging tech production operator woke up on their day off one day after they had worked a normally-scheduled shift. They were having difficulty moving without severe discomfort to their lower back on the right-hand side. The operator called into work 23 hours after their approximation of the time of incident and stated to their supervisor that they had strained their back near the end of the previous days shift. They stated they did not report the pain immediately because the pain was mild at the time. When asked about the moment of injury the operator said it was from lifting 20 gallon waste buckets to dump into larger food waste dumpsters and pushing the larger food waste dumpsters to the compactor room from the packaging area; stating some of the larger dumpsters have wheels that do not roll easily and take considerable exertion to move. The operator has been with the company for eight years working as a packaging tech for almost all of that time. They were nearing the end of th

Injury or illness

Strain Back Lower Back

Object or substance involved

10 gallon Ready to Eat waste barrel Ready to Eat waste dumpster tote

Summary line

Back strain from lifting heavy waste bucket from floor.

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.