Elizabethtown, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Akebono Elizabethtown
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Akebono Elizabethtown in 300 Ring Road, Elizabethtown, KY 42701 resulted in days away from work. Employee was plating Associate in brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Akebono Elizabethtown
- Parent company
- Akebono Brake Corp.
- Street
- 300 Ring Road
- City
- Elizabethtown
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 42701
- On-site location
- Nickel Plater
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 85
- Days restricted or transferred
- 95
Before the incident
worker was attempting to straighten a rack on the Nickel Plater without de-energizing the hoist
What happened
the hoist came around to pick up the rack and came down crushing workers right arm between rack and hoist
Injury or illness
right arm crush injury
Object or substance involved
plater hoist
Summary line
crush injury to right arm after failing to de-energize the plater hoist when straightening a rack
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Plating Associate
- SOC code
- 00-9900: Insufficient Information - NIOSH
- NAICS code
- 336340: Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 540
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,053,125
- EIN
- 363993763
- Establishment ID
- 1076687
- Employer case #
- 4
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 11:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-16
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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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