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OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in other recordable case. 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
Dross Trailer
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Operator was transporting dross hopper to dumpster area for disposal

Operator utilized a forklift to raise the hopper over the dumpster to dump it. This day was extremely windy. The wind caught debris from the hopper and blew back into the operators face causing a foreign body to enter his eye.

Foreign Body to the Left Eye from dumping dross with forklift

Dross from dross hopper being dumped

Foreign Body to the Left Eye from dumping dross with forklift

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 #
2527
Date of incident
Shift started
5:00
Time of incident
11:15
Filing year
2025
Submitted
29JAN26:17:18:00

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.