# Fractures at Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021130` · 2/3/2023 · ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 7195 Adairsville Hwy 140, ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30103
- **NAICS:** 313111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 3, 2023, an employee was placing and adjusting dock plates when his finger was caught on a case of yarn. This prevented the dock plate from extending properly into the trailer, and it pinched and fractured three of the employee's fingers. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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