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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-038523"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETN"
cik: "0001551182"
company_name: "Eaton Corp plc"
filed_at: "2026-10-05T10:30:45+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:43:10.615611+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eaton appoints Andrea Trabacchin as principal accounting officer; Adam Wadecki moves to SVP Finance, Electrical

## Summary
- Adam Wadecki, SVP and Controller, accepted a new role and will become SVP, Finance, Electrical effective Oct 5, 2026, leaving principal accounting officer post.
- Andrea Trabacchin, 48, was appointed SVP and Controller effective Oct 5, 2026; he will serve as Eaton's principal accounting officer.
- Trabacchin's compensation: $485,000 annual base salary and target short-term incentive of 60% of base salary, prorated for 2026.
- Trabacchin was SVP, Finance, Industrial from Apr 2024 and VP Finance, Mobility Group from Apr 2022; earlier he was at CNH Industrial.
- No family relationships or Item 404(a) related transactions were disclosed; Trabacchin entered Eaton's standard indemnification agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-038523
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETN
- cik: 0001551182
- company_name: Eaton Corp plc
- filed_at: 2026-10-05T10:30:45+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551182/000114036126038523/0001140361-26-038523-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551182/000114036126038523/ef20083229_8k.htm

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