Bowling Green, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in One Kobe Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in days away from work. Employee was casting Operator in automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products
- Parent company
- Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products LLC
- Street
- One Kobe Way
- City
- Bowling Green
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 42101
- On-site location
- Q Machine Line
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 9
Before the incident
Associate was assisting with manually moving a billet with another operator
What happened
As the associates lifted one billet to relocate the next one on the conveyor system rolled downwards and struck the injured associate on the knee causing a laceration requiring sutures
Injury or illness
Laceration to left knee from aluminum billet
Object or substance involved
Aluminum billet
Summary line
Laceration to left knee from aluminum billet
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Casting Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4072: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, an
- NAICS code
- 332613: Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 788
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,569,585
- Establishment ID
- 900262
- Employer case #
- 2526
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Time of incident
- 22:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-15
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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