Shaw Industries Inc. Plant 12
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning - Other burns, first degree - CARTERSVILLE, Georgia
| Employer | Shaw Industries Inc. Plant 12 |
| Address | 770 Joe Frank Harris Parkway |
| City, State ZIP | CARTERSVILLE, Georgia 30120 |
| Report ID | 2020010279 |
| Event Date | January 10, 2020 |
| Outcome | Hospitalized |
| Nature of Injury | Other burns, first degree |
| Body Part | Hand(s) and finger(s) |
| Event Type | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| Source of Injury | Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery |
| Industry (NAICS) | 314110 |
| GPS Coordinates | 34.18869, -84.78765 |
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Incident Narrative
An employee was applying plastic stretch film to a roll of carpet using a trolley-mounted stretch film head. The film tore and retracted back into the head of the film machine, wrapping around some small middle tension rollers. The employee was removing the film from the rollers with scissors when the machine activated and fed more film. His gloved left hand was caught between the small rollers and the lid of the stretch wrap machine, causing friction burns to the back of the hand, the little finger, and the middle finger.
Incident Summary
On January 10, 2020, a worker at Shaw Industries Inc. Plant 12 in CARTERSVILLE, Georgia suffered other burns, first degree to the hand(s) and finger(s). The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.
Context
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