# Fractures at J&J Flooring Group
> OSHA SIR `2016109338` · 10/3/2016 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** J&J Flooring Group
- **Location:** 818 J&J Drive, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a dye header (a piece of carpet) into a sample beck. When she tried to pull the head end of the dye header from underneath the reel, the carpet pulled her arm between the reel and the carpet, breaking two bones in her left forearm.

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