# Fractures at Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015096667` · 9/12/2015 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 2305 Abutment Road, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 313111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

With the assistance of other employees, the injured employee was relocating a tufting machine. The employees were in the process of leveling the machine by inserting metal leveling plates under the machine. The machine was being lifted by a 10-ton capacity pneumatic floor jack. The jack slipped and the tufting machine dropped trapping the employee's hand underneath. The employee suffered two fractured fingers.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*