# Fractures at Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099115` · 9/4/2018 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Plant PW, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31407
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was walking from a staging area to a receiving bullpen while talking to a forklift operator who was at the dockside of a forklift aisle. A second forklift operator was traveling in the forklift aisle and struck the injured employee's left foot, breaking four toes and causing a large contusion. The employee was hospitalized.

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