Elizabethtown, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Akebono Elizabethtown
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Akebono Elizabethtown in 300 Ring Road, Elizabethtown, KY 42701 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was maintenance 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
- CB36 Chiron Machine
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 14
Before the incident
worker was adjusting the proximity sensor on the [REDACTED] 's spindle
What happened
the locking mechanism failed and the tool dropped onto the left hand the injured worker jerked away the hand causing two lacerations to the thumb
Injury or illness
lacerations to the left thumb
Object or substance involved
End Mill Tool
Summary line
laceration to left thumb when tool from basket changer fell striking the left thumb
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Maintenance Associate
- SOC code
- 49-9041: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- 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 #
- 15
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 15:30
- 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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