Bowling Green, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY 42101 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was casting Operator in automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products
- Parent company
- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC
- Street
- One Kobe Way
- City
- Bowling Green
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 42101
- On-site location
- Casting 1
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 83
Before the incident
Operator was running casting 1 line.
What happened
While doing so the operator noticed the billets were not rolling properly down the table. This caused the operator to start rolling the billets by hand. While doing so the operators hand (glove) became caught between two billets causing a contusion to the right middle finger.
Injury or illness
Caught between injury to right middle finger. Contusion to right middle finger
Object or substance involved
Two billets caused contusion to operator 's middle finger.
Summary line
Caught between injury to right middle finger
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Casting Operator
- SOC code
- 9999 — Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 332613 — Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 866
- Total hours worked
- 1603353
- Establishment ID
- 900262
- Employer case #
- 2449
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 17:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 10JAN2025:12:53:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.