De Witt (also spelled DeWitt) is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.

[5][6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.42 square miles (1.09 km2), all land.

A popular tool, called the Vise-Grip, was first manufactured in De Witt.

Petersen, a blacksmith by trade, invented the first locking pliers and began selling them from the trunk of his car to farmers and people in surrounding towns.

The company operated under the Irwin Industrial name beginning in 2002 when it was purchased by Newell Rubbermaid.

[1] On October 31, 2008, the plant was closed and 330 jobs were lost when manufacturing of Vise-Grips and other tools moved to China.

In 2018 the building was sold to Malco Products, and as of 2021 has resumed producing pliers of the same style under the name Eagle Grip.

[2][permanent dead link‍] In 2009 Gerry Durnell writing in Automobile Quarterly said: "The original Vise-Grip manufacturing plant now sits vacant.