El Paso, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Southwire El Paso
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Southwire El Paso in 7811 Hoover Drive, El Paso, TX 79912 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was operator Extruder I in wire and Cable Manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Southwire El Paso
- Parent company
- Southwire
- Street
- 7811 Hoover Drive
- City
- El Paso
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 79912
- On-site location
- STP7 payoff
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 38
Before the incident
Team member had just finished unloading the empty reels from the payoff.
What happened
A team member was removing a reel from a flat stock to load it into the pay off. The reels had been staged next to each other which caused the reel next to it to shift and roll out of position. This created a pinch point between two moving reels resulting in the team members left index finger becoming caught. The injury led to a fracture and laceration of the finger.
Injury or illness
Laceration; Finger - Index Left
Object or substance involved
What directly harmed the team member was the pinch point created by the two reels
Summary line
Laceration to the left index finger when caught between the flanges of two reels
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Operator Extruder I
- SOC code
- 9999: Uncoded
- NAICS code
- 331420: Wire and Cable Manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 221
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 452,937
- EIN
- 582020515
- Establishment ID
- 1370815
- Employer case #
- USELPASO24
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 19:00
- Time of incident
- 20:45
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-28
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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