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OSHA Injury Report: Plant 4

Injury · Job transfer or restriction

On , an injury at Plant 4 in Dalton, GA 30720 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was creeler in carpet and Rug Mills.

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
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
14

Hanging the bottom row the the creel on [REDACTED] 22

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

Assocaite strained the left side of his groin area

while bending down to get yarn

[REDACTED] strained the left side of his groin area while bending down to get yarn

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
Date of incident
Shift started
23:00:00.000
Time of incident
1:25:00.000
Submitted
17JAN24:20:27:00

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.