Louisville, KY ·
OSHA Injury Report: NHK Spring Precision of America
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at NHK Spring Precision of America in 10600 Freeport Drive, Louisville, KY 40258 resulted in days away from work. Employee was machine Operator in coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- NHK Spring Precision of America
- Parent company
- NHK Precision Spring America
- Street
- 10600 Freeport Drive
- City
- Louisville
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 40258
- On-site location
- E - Grinding Machine
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 8
Before the incident
Loading wire springs into a grinding machine.
What happened
While working on E-Line Grinding the small conveyor belt for the loading chute malfunctioned. Attempting to resolve the issue Mr. [REDACTED] reached beneath the conveyor grasping the drive belt and successfully restarted the conveyor. Unfortunately this action caused his finger to be pulled into one of the drive pulleys leading to a fingertip avulsion.
Injury or illness
Fingertip Avulsion
Object or substance involved
Conveyor drive pulley and belt.
Summary line
Fingertip Avulsion from conveyor drive pulley
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Machine Operator
- SOC code
- 51-4199: Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- NAICS code
- 332613: Coiled springs (except clock, watch), light gauge, made from purchased wire or strip, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 173
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 370,170
- EIN
- 202899111
- Establishment ID
- 941721
- Employer case #
- 157
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:25
- Time of incident
- 19:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-01-23
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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