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 3 Burr Box Area
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 7
Before the incident
Associate was cleaning robot sensors by removing metal flash with a tool from a burr box on the backside of the press
What happened
As he was using a long metal tool to move the flash the robot cycled and dropped a piece of flash on the rod. This jarred the tool and caused a laceration to the right thumb
Injury or illness
Right Thumb Laceration from contact with metal tool
Object or substance involved
Long metal rod and aluminum piece of flash
Summary line
Right Thumb Laceration from contact with metal tool
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 #
- 2538
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 19JAN26:19:51:00
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.