# Fractures at SHAW INDUSTRIES Group Inc., Plant SP
> OSHA SIR `2016109738` · 10/16/2016 · CHICKAMAUGA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** SHAW INDUSTRIES Group Inc., Plant SP
- **Location:** 12454 N Hwy 27, CHICKAMAUGA, GEORGIA, 30707
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was pulling out secondary backing to make a waste collection bag at the scales for warp waste, the employee's feet became tangled in waste on the floor. The employee fell to the ground and fractured the right femur and right hip.

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