# Fractures at Southwire Company
> OSHA SIR `2016042757` · 4/2/2016 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire Company
- **Location:** 1 Southwire Drive, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30119
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While operating the strander machine in normal operating mode, an employee's clothes became entangled in the rotating parts of the machine. The employee was dragged into the machine, suffering head lacerations and breaking the right and left femur, right tibia and fibula, and four ribs.

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