# Fractures at Mowhawk Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171010145` · 10/23/2017 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Mowhawk Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1811 South Hamilton Street, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 326192
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee moved a trailer into the dock to be unloaded. When he opened the trailer door, two bundles of scrap fell out and struck him, breaking his right ankle and knee.

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