Carlsbad, NM ·
OSHA Injury Report: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in 4021 National Parks Highway, Carlsbad, NM 88220 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was electrician in hazardous waste disposal facilities.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
- Parent company
- SALADO ISOLATION MINING CONTRACTORS LLC
- Street
- 4021 National Parks Highway
- City
- Carlsbad
- State
- NM
- ZIP
- 88220
- On-site location
- Outside waste hoist
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 2
Before the incident
Stripping wire with stripping knife and cut palm of left hand
What happened
While holding wire in left had as employee was stripping wire the knife blade slipped off the wire and cut through the workers glove.
Injury or illness
Laceration to left hand
Object or substance involved
Wire stripping knife
Summary line
Laceration to Hand
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Electrician
- SOC code
- 47-2111: Electricians
- NAICS code
- 562211: Hazardous waste disposal facilities
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 1,033
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 1,897,904
- EIN
- 824745477
- Establishment ID
- 1030967
- Employer case #
- 2023016
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:00
- Time of incident
- 08:25
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-03-05
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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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