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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 reliability Tech D 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
Near the folding frame on machine 35
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
7

Associate stated that he was trying to free up a crowbar from a toolbox

[REDACTED] came in the office and stated that he had hurt his right hand while attempting to free up a crowbar that had gotten stuck inside the edge of the toolbox [REDACTED] tried to lean the box over against a bar on the mending frame to try and free up the crowbar as he did that the toolbox slid and associate tried to keep box from falling causing his hand to get smashed by the toolbox [REDACTED] had a cut on his right ring finger and cuts on his middle finger The middle finger looked like it had been smashed and the nail presented a small cut to the top part of the nail

Assocaite had cuts on his ring and middle finger of his right hand

from attempting to catch a toolbox that fell

[REDACTED] had cuts on his ring and middle finger of his right hand from attempting to catch a toolbox that fell

Job description
Reliability Tech D
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
314110 — Carpet and Rug Mills
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
698
Total hours worked
1410977
EIN
581032521
Establishment ID
137966
Employer case #
202356212
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
8:10:00.000
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.