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OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was casting Operator in automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing.

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
JK Machine Line
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
6

Associate was changing a blade insert on the JK line

While doing so the associates hand slipped and caused the blade insert to slide across his right thumb leading to a laceration

Laceration to right thumb from blade insert

JK line blade insert

Laceration to right thumb from blade insert

Job description
Casting Operator
SOC code
51-4072 — Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, an
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 #
2521
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00
Time of incident
10:25
Filing year
2025
Submitted
19JAN26:20:47:00

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.