Frankfort, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Buffalo Trace Distillery
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Buffalo Trace Distillery in 113 Great Buffalo Trace, Frankfort, KY 40601 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was distillery Process Tech in distilleries.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Buffalo Trace Distillery
- Parent company
- Buffalo Trace Distillery
- Street
- 113 Great Buffalo Trace
- City
- Frankfort
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 40601
- On-site location
- Fermentation B ground level
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
[REDACTED] was using a chemical sprayer with a diluted caustic soda to clean spilled mash on the floor by fermenters 23 and 24
What happened
[REDACTED] was wearing safety glasses however a errant drop navigated around the PPE and got [REDACTED] in the right eye
Injury or illness
Chemical in both eyes
Object or substance involved
Caustic
Summary line
Was using a pressure sprayer to apply caustic to clean the ground a spray ricocheted of the ground and under his safety glasses
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Distillery Process Tech
- SOC code
- 51-9012: Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Mac
- NAICS code
- 312140: Distilleries
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 852
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 1,558,794
- EIN
- 611225935
- Establishment ID
- 654946
- Employer case #
- 25-8
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 18:00
- Time of incident
- 22:00
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-01-30
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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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