Wire and Cable Manufacturing · Texas

Southwire El Paso

El Paso, TX · ~205 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwire El Paso runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wire and Cable Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Southwire El Paso: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Wire and Cable Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwire El Paso safety composite

Southwire El Paso scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Southwire El Paso: 0.5 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Southwire El Paso's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.5 in 2021 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · El Paso, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO Southwire Company St…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwire Company Starkville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwire El Paso in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Southwire El Paso averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Wire and Cable Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Southwire El Paso TCR series: 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwire El Paso falls in its industry

198 Wire and Cable Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 19 Wire and Cable Manufacturing employers in Texas.

Southwire El Paso (205 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwire El Paso
Southwire El Paso (205 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Southwire El Paso has more employees than the Wire and Cable Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2022 1.6 0.4 4 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · TX · El Paso

198 Wire and Cable Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Southwire Company Starkville Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Building Wire Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Materion - Shoemakersville 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bremen Hi Temp Plant 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston Office 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7421 - Ineos Chcolate Bayou 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.E. Rice Construction Company, Inc. 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tarsco Construction Corporation 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR P&C Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HOC Industries, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR StarCom Builders, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 9-Usf-Olf Regency 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Galman Group 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner Pest Control, LLC 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walman Optical Service Center 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Providence Medical Center 205 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.