Dalton, GA —
OSHA Injury Report: Plant 4
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Plant 4 in Dalton, GA 30720 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was creeler in carpet and Rug Mills.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Plant 4
- Parent company
- Shaw Industries Group Inc.
- Street
- 2225 S Hamilton Ext.
- City
- Dalton
- State
- GA
- ZIP
- 30720
- On-site location
- Top of Creel Tufting Machine 22
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 14
Before the incident
Hanging the bottom row the the creel on [REDACTED] 22
What happened
S Associate was working on Top of machine 22 and while working associate stated that they were squatting down to pick up the cones from the bottom layer of the case to the lowest level of the creel When heading back up associate stated that he felt he pulled a muscle while going up Associate felt that he pulled a muscle at the left side of the groin area when coming up Associate felt the muscle pulled at [REDACTED] but did not feel any pain Associate still kept on working on his creel and still kept on squatting to hang the lower part of the creel At around [REDACTED] associate started to feel pain Associate states that he feels discomfort when walking and that it hurts a lot when squatting Associate stated that the pain level is at a 4 or 5 O Associate did do stretch and flex in the beginning of the shift with everyone else Unknown at this time on how this happened Associate was creeling with 1 cone at a time and when the associate went to get up from the squatting position he did not
Injury or illness
Assocaite strained the left side of his groin area
Object or substance involved
while bending down to get yarn
Summary line
[REDACTED] strained the left side of his groin area while bending down to get yarn
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Creeler
- SOC code
- 51-6064 — Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- NAICS code
- 314110 — Carpet and Rug Mills
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Avg employees
- 698
- Total hours worked
- 1410977
- EIN
- 581032521
- Establishment ID
- 137966
- Employer case #
- 202354072
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 23:00:00.000
- Time of incident
- 1:25:00.000
- Submitted
- 17JAN24:20:27:00
Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.