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OSHA Injury Report: Plant 4

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Plant 4 in Dalton, GA 30720 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was wrapper 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
wrapper station on coater 2 alley side
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

associate was sitting on a chair beside their station when the incident took place

associate informed the supervisor on first shift that they had caught something in their left eye when another associate was turning their fan on some lint and dust went spreading towards the affected associate area and cause some of that dust to enter the associates eye

Associates left eye was got a foreign object in it causing irritation to the eye from

lint from another associate turning on a fan

Associates left eye was got a foreign object in it causing irritation to the eye from lint from another associate turning on a fan

Job description
Wrapper
SOC code
53-7064 — Packers and Packagers, Hand
NAICS code
314110 — Carpet and Rug Mills
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
698
Total hours worked
1410977
EIN
581032521
Establishment ID
137966
Employer case #
202355287
Date of incident
Shift started
7:00:00.000
Time of incident
10:30:00.000
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.