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 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 Turn Table Area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 6
Before the incident
Operator was running press 9 and in the packing area at the front of the press
What happened
Operator was loading packing boxes. While doing so he claims to have had to exert more force than normal to turn the turntable. He states he felt pain in the right shoulder from this.
Injury or illness
Right Shoulder Strain from exerting force turning a turn table
Object or substance involved
Turn table that packing box is on caused associate to exert force
Summary line
Right Shoulder Strain from exerting force turning a turn table
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
- Avg employees
- 788
- Total hours worked
- 1569585
- Establishment ID
- 900262
- Employer case #
- 2542
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 5:00
- Time of incident
- 13:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 19JAN26:17:44:00
Source
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.