Bowling Green, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in One Kobe Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was forging 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
- Press 9 Operator Station
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 7
Before the incident
Operator was working at the press. Moving parts from the conveyor to a packing box.
What happened
While placing a part in a box the associate claims to have felt a pop and had pain in the left hand forearm
Injury or illness
Left Forearm Strain from placing part inside packing box
Object or substance involved
Operator did not have an object harm him
Summary line
Left Forearm Strain from placing part inside packing box
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Forging Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4031: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Te
- 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 #
- 2534
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Time of incident
- Not known — the employer filed this case without a time of day.
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-19
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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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