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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 Operator 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
Bottom of creel Tufting Machine 14
Outcome
Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days restricted or transferred
16

Hanging cones of yarn

Associate reported her right wrist and back of neck is hurting She stated this has been going on for a few days but [REDACTED] the pain is unbearable. She stated that she feels she has been put to work on her own since she started to work She did not report anything because she thought it was normal to feel this since she has never creeled before. I observed that her veins on her right wrist are swollen. She states she cannot carry anything on her right hand because of how much it hurts. The associates neck seems like a bump on where the associate is stating that it hurts She stated that the yarn on Machine 14 was heavy I went to weigh the yarn which weighs about 12 pounds which is the average weight She is still in training and she has been here for 3 weeks She stated since she been in training on 3rd shift she has been creeling and tying on her own. [REDACTED] always left and left her on her own. She has never creeled before and having to do a repetitive motion from the start could b

Associates right wrist is swollen and associate has a knot on the back of her neck

from doing her normal job procedures

Associates right wrist is swollen and associate has a knot on the back of her neck from doing her normal job procedures

Job description
Creeler Operator
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 #
202355167
Date of incident
Shift started
23:00:00.000
Time of incident
4:10:00.000
Submitted
17JAN24:20:39:00

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.