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OSHA Injury Report: NHK of America

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at NHK of America in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in days away from work. Employee was material Handler in coiled springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing.

Establishment
NHK of America
Parent company
NASCO
Street
3251 Nashville Rd.
City
Bowling Green
State
KY
ZIP
42101
On-site location
Material Stand 1A
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
18

Loading a bundle of material onto the material stand 1a

the crane normally used to load that machine had broken and a secondary crane was being used to load the material stand. As the employee was loading a bundle using some temporary slide tooling the bundle kicked back due to the load not being level. the bundle hit the operator and pushed him into the handrail. while sliding out from between the handrail and the bundle employee fractured his tailbone on the handrail.

Fractured tailbone

Material bundle and handrail

Bundle of bars kicked back onto operator causing him to fracture his tailbone on the handrail

Job description
Material Handler
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
332613 — Coiled springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
312
Total hours worked
648392
Establishment ID
198529
Employer case #
R2-24
Date of incident
Shift started
21:30
Time of incident
1:53
Filing year
2024
Submitted
21FEB2025:17:38:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.