Shepherdsville, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Tower Automotive USA, LLC
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Tower Automotive USA, LLC in Shepherdsville, KY 40165 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was maintenanceSHP in car bodies, kit, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Tower Automotive USA, LLC
- Parent company
- Tower International
- Street
- 550 Cedar Grove Rd
- City
- Shepherdsville
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 40165
- On-site location
- op 501 in P708
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Conducting Maintenance on the op
What happened
While performing an arc fault recovery He attempted to pull weld wire from the welding robot without first relieving the wire feeder tension. As his welding pliers slipped the back of his hand was punctured by the weld wire protruding from a nearby used MIG tip bucket.
Injury or illness
The left hand got punctured with a piece of Mig wire
Object or substance involved
mig wire in bucket
Summary line
Puncture his left hand with mig wire.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- MaintenanceSHP
- SOC code
- 00-9900 — Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 336211 — Car bodies, kit, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 272
- Total hours worked
- 553278
- EIN
- 260440499
- Establishment ID
- 598091
- Employer case #
- 2025-469
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:30
- Time of incident
- 17:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 09JAN26:19:54:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.