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OSHA Injury Report: Piston Automotive

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Piston Automotive in Louisville, KY 40299 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was quality Technician in radiators and cores manufacturing.

Establishment
Piston Automotive
Parent company
Piston Group
Street
13150 Plantside Drive
City
Louisville
State
KY
ZIP
40299
On-site location
P708 Front Bumper
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
17

Employee was helping the Team Lead manually lift a front bumper to the tear down table.

While employee and Team Lead were lifting the bumper she stated her hand slipped and she was dropping the bumper. She didn 't want it to hit the floor so she reached to stop it and stated she hurt her lower back and right shoulder in doing so.

low back strain right shoulder strain

front bumper of a truck

low back and right shoulder strain from reaching down to catch a dropped bumper

Job description
Quality Technician
SOC code
51-9061 — Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
NAICS code
336390 — Radiators and cores manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
200
Total hours worked
483986
EIN
383355223
Establishment ID
556428
Employer case #
1MT
Date of incident
Shift started
18:00:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:16:15:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.