Frankfort, KY —
OSHA Injury Report: Buffalo Trace Distillery
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, KY 40601 resulted in days away from work. Employee was aging Warehouse Utility in distilleries.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Buffalo Trace Distillery
- Parent company
- Buffalo Trace Distillery
- Street
- 113 Great Buffalo Trace
- City
- Frankfort
- State
- KY
- ZIP
- 40601
- On-site location
- Over the road trailer.
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 26
- Days restricted or transferred
- 9
Before the incident
An AWU was putting gate on back of barrel flatbed truck and the completion of loading truck and was standing halfway on the barrel truck and halfway on trailer.v
What happened
As the AWU was placing gate into the barrel truck Truck driver starting to pull away from trailer. The AWU beginning to do splits and holler over at driver to stop. Eventually pulled to far away and caused a sharp tear and pull in the injured TM back leg area (hamstring from what I can tell). The Tm then tried to fall into trailer to not drop down between truck and trailer and fall to ground. Was in a good deal of pain as soon as happened. Said they felt a tear or pulling and possibly a pop but unsure exactly.
Injury or illness
Strains Sprains (Pelvis)
Object or substance involved
The Truck and the trailer
Summary line
Employee was loading barrels onto a flat bed truck from a trailer. The truck moved forward and employee strained growing.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Aging Warehouse Utility
- SOC code
- 53-7062 — Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 312140 — Distilleries
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Avg employees
- 830
- Total hours worked
- 1574909
- EIN
- 611225935
- Establishment ID
- 654946
- Employer case #
- 24-1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 14:30
- Time of incident
- 21:00
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted
- 17JAN2025:19:28:00
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.