Southwire Company LLC

On May 20, 2025, an employee was stringing up a drawing machine. He turned and his feet became tangled in the floor mats, causing him to fall and strike his knee on the floor. The employee sustained a fractured left femur.

An employee was preparing to place extruded wire onto a take-up reel using a "mule rope" affixed to the start end of the wire and had tied the other end of the mule rope to the take-up reel. The employee was using their left hand to hold the mule rope in place on the end of the wire. While the employee was jogging the reel to take the slack out of the mule rope, the mule rope tightened and pinched the employee's left index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.

An employee stopped a machine to exchange a full reel for an empty reel in the take-up. The employee rolled the empty reel into the take-up and placed the tail of the wire into the flange hole of the reel. The employee then began removing slack from the wire. As the wire tightened, it got caught on a bolt on a motor of the take-up. The wire was pulled tight and caught the employee's finger against the reel flange amputating the employee's fingertip.

An employee was lowering a spool on a take-up machine. The spool went up instead of down and pinched his left index finger against a knob. He suffered an amputation at the first joint.

An employee was troubleshooting an oil separator and suffered amputation of their right ring finger below the first joint. The machine was not shut down or locked out at the time.

A mixer truck driver was delivering a load of concrete to a jobsite. The driver was operating the controls outside of his truck when a 6x10-foot fascia wall gave way. One of the concrete fascia panels struck the driver's right calf resulting in amputation of the leg below the knee.

An employee was installing sheet piles when a pier collapsed and they sustained a broken leg.

An employee was receiving a 32-by-8 panel wall that weighed 3,500 pounds. As the crane was going up, the cable of one of the clanks became caught on the panel wall. The panel wall collapsed and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in right leg fractures and amputation below the knee.

An employee was moving conveyors in a warehouse to another location using rolling casters. The legs became detached from the bottom of the conveyor, and the employee's right index finger was caught in the conveyor pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was participating in demolition work when a non-structural wall collapsed on him. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured shoulder.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.

An employee was operating a reach truck and was coming around corner when the vehicle struck a warehouse rack. The employee's left foot got caught between the forklift and the rack. The employee was hospitalized with fractured toes.

An employee was walking down an exterior concrete stairway. She lost her footing, fell to the concrete, and suffered a compound fracture to the right ankle. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee placed a box in the driving cage of a forklift to move it from one side of the warehouse to the other. As the employee approached the back portion of the area, the box shifted and hit the controls, causing the forklift to move toward the warehouse wall. The employee lost their balance, caught themselves, and stepped down off the forklift. The forklift continued and struck the wall, pinning their left leg/ankle against the wall. The employee moved the forklift forward and then fell to the floor, sustaining injuries to their leg and foot.

An employee was walking in the parking lot from their car to the front door when they slipped on ice and fell, resulting in an arm fracture.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.