# Fractures at Mohawk Industries
> OSHA SIR `20201010335` · 10/30/2020 · EMMAUS, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Rain
## Employer
- **Name:** Mohawk Industries
- **Location:** 4030 Chestnut St, Unit 3, EMMAUS, PENNSYLVANIA, 18049
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the trailer pulling a piece of rolled product off the trailer when he lost his footing and fell onto the concrete ground. It was raining and the back of the trailer was wet at the time. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur and left wrist requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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