# Fractures at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016099205` · 9/30/2016 · LITTLE ELM, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
- **Location:** 2773 E. EldoradoParkway, LITTLE ELM, TEXAS, 75068
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and two coworkers were reverse-rolling a 110-foot roll of carpet for a scheduled carpet installation. After reverse-rolling the carpet, the team proceeded to operate the carpet machine in order to shrink-wrap it. During this process, the carpet fell off the machine and struck the injured employee in the left leg, breaking the kneecap and requiring surgery.

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