Bowling Green, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in days away from work. Employee was casting 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
- Casting 2
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
- Days restricted or transferred
- 31
Before the incident
Operator was picking up a billet by hand with another associate to be removed from table conveyor system
What happened
While lifting the billet he lost his grip and the billet fell smashing his hand between the billet and table.
Injury or illness
Fracture to the Left Thumb from manually handling billets
Object or substance involved
Metal aluminum billet and billet table conveyor
Summary line
Fracture to the Left Thumb from manually handling billets
Employee and industry
- 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 #
- 2529
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Time of incident
- 22:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted
- 28JAN26:16:05:00
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.