Louisville, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: BFD
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at BFD in 2921 Dixie Hwy, Louisville, KY 40216 resulted in days away from work. Employee was electrican in distilling alcoholic beverages (except brandy).
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- BFD
- Parent company
- Early Times Distillery
- Street
- 2921 Dixie Hwy
- City
- Louisville
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 40216
- On-site location
- Distillery Grounds
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 1
Before the incident
The employee was completing maintenance on one of the cooling towers including cutting and drilling into metal wearing all required PPE.
What happened
After the employee arrived home he changed from his work clothes (including a beanie hat) upon changing he began experiencing a foreign body sensation in their left (LT) eye and irrigated the eye with water. The pain persisted overnight. The [REDACTED] the employee went to work and attempted irrigation with saline solution but received no relief. The employee subsequently went to the Emergency Room. The employee believes that metal shavings from the beanie hat may have fallen into the L eye.
Injury or illness
Eye Irritation Foreign Body
Object or substance involved
Metal shaving
Summary line
After drilling EE felt a metal shaving in L eye
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Electrican
- SOC code
- 47-2111: Electricians
- NAICS code
- 312140: Distilling alcoholic beverages (except brandy)
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2025 average)
- 68
- Hours worked at this establishment (2025 total)
- 121,238
- EIN
- 610623164
- Establishment ID
- 157435
- Employer case #
- 36498
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 21:30
- Filing year
- 2025
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2026-02-05
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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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