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OSHA Injury Report: Avionics

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Avionics in Fort Wayne, IN 46809 resulted in days away from work. Employee was spooler in steel wire drawing.

Establishment
Avionics
Parent company
Fort Wayne Metals Research Products LLC
Street
9307 Avionics Drive
City
Fort Wayne
State
IN
ZIP
46809
On-site location
Spooling
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
34
Days restricted or transferred
146

Employee was holding [REDACTED]

Wire stuck between two capstans. Loosened first capstan to get to the wire. While holding the capstan a co-worker was trying to get the wire unstuck and the take up pulled the wire that was still on the capstan and cut the employees left thumb.

Cut to the finger thumb.

The wire

Received laceration to thumb when hand caught between the wire and the capstan

Job description
Spooler
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
331222 — Steel wire drawing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
157
Total hours worked
293013
EIN
351186549
Establishment ID
577763
Employer case #
R2023-14
Date of incident
Shift started
0:00:00.000
Time of incident
7:10:00.000
Submitted
27FEB24:21:01:00

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.