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OSHA Injury Report: Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. in Lakeland, FL 33815 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was production Helper in bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries.

Establishment
Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.
Parent company
Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.
Street
3355 W Memorial Blvd
City
Lakeland
State
FL
ZIP
33815
On-site location
Line 4 by the restroom
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

The employee was walking from the [REDACTED] 3 area to the restroom just before [REDACTED] 4. When she turned the corner she was speaking to another employee and had her head turned towards the employee on the left while continuing to walk forward and collided with the shipper moving a stack of buns. She hit her right thumb on the stack and there is a small avulsion (fracture) along the base of the distal phalanx (top of her thumb) along the redial aspect. The incident was communicated to the Supervisor however the employee stated to the supervisor that she did not want to complete a report.

The employee was walking from the [REDACTED] 3 area to the restroom just before [REDACTED] 4. When she turned the corner she was speaking to another employee and had her head turned towards the employee on the left while continuing to walk forward and collided with the shipper moving a stack of buns. She hit her right thumb on the stack and there is a small avulsion (fracture) along the base of the distal phalanx (top of her thumb) along the redial aspect. The incident was communicated to the Supervisor however the employee stated to the supervisor that she did not want to complete a report.

Avulsion Hand Right Thumb

Trays

Avulsion Hand Right Thumb Trays Struck against

Job description
Production Helper
SOC code
51-3092 — Food Batchmakers
NAICS code
311812 — Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
212
Total hours worked
445655
EIN
592430639
Establishment ID
1081592
Employer case #
51
Date of incident
Shift started
16:00:00.000
Time of incident
19:35:00.000
Submitted
23JAN24:21:48:00

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.