Bowling Green, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green in 1906 College Heights Blvd., Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was locksmith in academies, college or university.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green
- Parent company
- Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green)
- Street
- 1906 College Heights Blvd.
- City
- Bowling Green
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 42101
- On-site location
- Old mall; machine shop
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
Working on installing new lock griding tail piece.
What happened
Employee was changing out a lock when he realized the locking components were different and needed to be modified. Knowing the correct sized piece was not in inventory employee attempted to modify the piece so it would fit. Attempting to file down the piece in order to shorten wasn 't working as he did not have an aggressive enough metal file. Being next to the machine shop employee elected to utilize the shops grinding wheel to file down the metal pin. Employee had clamped the tail piece with a pair of needle nose channel locks. While holding the piece of metal with the channel locks against the wheel he began grinding away the excess metal. While almost complete the grinding wheel suddenly grabbed causing the piece of metal he was holding to spin striking employees finger.
Injury or illness
Laceration requiring stitches.
Object or substance involved
stationary grinding wheel.
Summary line
Laceration requiring stitches to right pinky finger from using grinding wheel to modify a lock mechanism.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Locksmith
- SOC code
- 49-9094: Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
- NAICS code
- 611310: Academies, college or university
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 1,918
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 3,836,317
- EIN
- 616055628
- Establishment ID
- 177926
- Employer case #
- 25-013R
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 09:45
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-02
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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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