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OSHA Injury Report: Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Plant

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Plant in Fort Wayne, IN 468E6 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was group lead in copper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper.

Establishment
Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Plant
Parent company
Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc.
Street
4300 New Haven Ave
City
Fort Wayne
State
IN
ZIP
468E6
On-site location
Conform
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
112

Employee was smashing the copper flash in the scrap hopper at the conform machine. Employee was smashing the copper flash in the scrap hopper at the conform machine.

Employee experienced some limited soreness in his right shoulder at the time which progressively got worse.

Injury

Employee was using a tamping tool.

Right shoulder tendonitis

Job description
Group lead
SOC code
51-1011 — First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
NAICS code
331420 — Copper products made by rolling, drawing, or extruding purchased copper
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
126
Total hours worked
259943
Establishment ID
472356
Employer case #
3
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Submitted
28JAN24:14:45:00

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.