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OSHA Injury Report: Akebono Elizabethtown

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Akebono Elizabethtown in Elizabethtown, KY 42701 resulted in days away from work. Employee was temporary laborer in brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.

Establishment
Akebono Elizabethtown
Parent company
Akebono Brake Corp.
Street
300 Ring Road
City
Elizabethtown
State
KY
ZIP
42701
On-site location
Service hand build
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
1
Days restricted or transferred
60

worker was cleaning out support pin holes with a hand held drill and bristle brush attachment wearing nylon gloves

the drill brush made contact with the nylon glove on the left thumb and begin to pull the glove and thumb into the brush wrapping it tightly around each other

fractured left thumb

drill brush attachment

fracture to left thumb when glove got pulled into drill attachment

Job description
Temporary laborer
SOC code
53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
NAICS code
336340 — Brake caliper assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
540
Total hours worked
1053125
EIN
363993763
Establishment ID
1076687
Employer case #
9
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
12:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
16JAN26:16:56:00

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.