# Fractures at Dixie Converting Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017056007` · 5/24/2017 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dixie Converting Corporation
- **Location:** 889 Blandenburg Road, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30116
- **NAICS:** 322299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the floor positioning a roll of paper onto a wrapping station. A forklift came up behind the employee and lowered the roll of paper towards him when his left leg was caught between the wrapping table and the roll of paper resulting in a fractured fibula.

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