Bowling Green, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products in One Kobe Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in other recordable case. 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
- Dross Trailer
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Operator was transporting dross hopper to dumpster area for disposal
What happened
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.
Injury or illness
Foreign Body to the Left Eye from dumping dross with forklift
Object or substance involved
Dross from dross hopper being dumped
Summary line
Foreign Body to the Left Eye from dumping dross with forklift
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
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 788
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,569,585
- Establishment ID
- 900262
- Employer case #
- 2527
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 05:00
- Time of incident
- 11:15
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-29
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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