# Fractures at Garland Sales, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017099115` · 9/22/2017 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **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:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Garland Sales, Inc.
- **Location:** 1800 Antioch Rd., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 442210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a cutting table when a roll of carpet fell off a forklift and struck the employee, who suffered multiple spinal fractures.

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