# Fractures at MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024065128` · 6/10/2024 · SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 106 John Bankson Dr., SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, 30747
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning/unjamming polymer that had hardened inside the pipe near the ball valve. As the employee was chipping it away with a pole, the ball valve that was in a locked-open position failed, released, and snapped close on the pole, causing the pole to jerk back and strike him in the face. The employee sustained a fracture to the face that required hospitalization.

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