| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-13 | Rome | Ga | Integrated Fiber Solutions (IFS), LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee moved the accumulator sled of a yarn machine in order to access the yarn when she suffered the amputation of her right ring finger. | |||||
| 2020-10-18 | Chatsworth | Ga | Mohawk Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was performing maintenance on a yarn twister machine. When the employee started up the machine, it caught and amputated the employee's left little finger. | |||||
| 2020-10-03 | Atmore | Al | TDG Operations, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear yarn that was being spun and starting to cluster at two large spinning cyclones. The employee's right thumb became caught between the spool of yarn and the yarn being spun resulting in amputation of the left thumb at the base of the nailbed. | |||||
| 2020-03-26 | Rome | Georgia | Integrated Fiber Solutions (IFS), LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was cutting yarn. The waste yarn cut the employee's left ring finger, amputating the tip. | |||||
| 2020-03-18 | Chatsworth | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was repairing a broken yard end. While he was untying yarn ends to remove a yarn wrap from a 4-inch feed roller, the roller cycled, pinching the tip of his right thumb between a 2-inch tension roller and the 4-inch feed roller. He suffered an amputation to the thumb. | |||||
| 2020-02-22 | Barnesville | Georgia | Continental Tire the Americas, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee attempted to untangle ends on machine when their right hand got caught in the yarn and severed the tip of employee's pinky finger. | |||||
| 2019-07-23 | Iowa | Louisiana | Zagis USA | Scalp | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee had been spinning yarn on a frame when her hair got caught in the yarn take-up shaft. The hair was completely pulled out and the scalp was peeled back. | |||||
| 2019-03-28 | Lewiston | Maine | Insulsafe Textiles, Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was adding yarn to the slasher machine when his hands were caught in the machine. | |||||
| 2018-09-27 | La Fayette | Georgia | Shaw Industries Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| A yarn cabling operator's finger made contact with moving yarn. This caused an amputation of the tip of his left index finger. | |||||
| 2018-05-14 | Roanoke | Alabama | Candlewick Yarns, LLC | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was guiding yarn into machine rollers when the rollers pulled his right hand into the machine, crushing his fingers. The machine also released steam that burned his fingers and right forearm. The rollers were unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2018-04-29 | Dalton | Georgia | Global Textile Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was attempting to remove waste/scrap yarn from a roller shaft when the turning roller amputated his left index finger. The roller shaft was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2018-02-12 | Rome | Georgia | Syntec Industries, LLC | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was retrieving her purse to go home. A plastic liner was sticking out from an empty yarn cage and the employee tripped over the plastic liner and fell fracturing her left femur and patella. | |||||
| 2018-01-24 | Alabaster | Alabama | Sealing Equipment Products Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee changed out two full bobbins of yarn on a spooling machine, reloaded the machine with two new empty bobbins, wrapped the fiberglass yarn around the two bobbins, and pressed the start button with the left hand while the right hand was on one of the bobbins. The employee's right middle and ring fingers were then caught and pulled into the bobbin, and the yarn abraded/cut the inside of these two fingers. | |||||
| 2017-10-16 | Dalton | Georgia | The Recreational Group | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was flattening yarn in an extruder machine when his right hand became caught in the machine's rollers. | |||||
| 2017-10-03 | Kansas City | Kansas | Knit-Rite, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing the yarn on a flat bed knitting machine when his body hit the start-up bar, causing the carriage to quickly move and amputate his left thumb. | |||||
| 2017-05-14 | Dalton | Georgia | Mohawk Industries | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was manually moving yarn stuck in the texturizer on the extrusion line. The machine was turned back on and amputated the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-09-03 | Dalton | Georgia | J+J Flooring Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was repairing the tufting machine and straightening up the yarn on a puller roller when his right ring finger was caught and amputated in the machine. | |||||
| 2016-08-15 | Nicholls | Georgia | Milliken & Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was trimming excess yarn off of the package. The excess yarn became entangled in his hand and fell back through the guide slot in the guard as the employee was cutting it. After falling through the guide slot, the yarn began to wrap around the over feed, pulling his hand against the guard causing the amputation of the left thumb, a laceration on the left pinky finger, and crushing the left ring finger. | |||||
| 2016-06-28 | Dalton | Georgia | Beaulieu Group LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working with yarn when her finger was caught in the yarn cutter guide during a string-up operation, causing an amputation. | |||||
| 2016-06-15 | Fitzgerald | Georgia | SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was removing excess yarn from a yarn package (a roll of yarn) inside a cabling machine. He held the excess yarn in his right hand, and as he put it back into the machine, the yarn became caught on the pre-seed roller. The roller then pulled the yarn around and partially amputated his fifth digit (pinky finger). | |||||
| 2015-09-06 | Dalton | Georgia | Integrated Fiber Solutions, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was threading yarn through the winder with his right hand on the aspirator. The traverse (yarn holder) grabbed his left pinky finger and lacerated it. His left ring finger was also lacerated. The pinky finger had to be surgically amputated to the first knuckle. | |||||
| 2015-05-29 | Bridgeport | Alabama | Beaulieu Group, LLC | Hand(s) | Exposure to harmful substances or environments |
| An employee suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on the right hand while working on a yarn roller which required hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-05-03 | Brownwood | Texas | Superior Essex Communications LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was working on the buffering lines running a cable. The jacket came off while he was trying to restring the machine. He pulled the yarn and the dance arm became loose pulling the yarn and causing it to tighten. The yarn tightened around his right middle finger causing an above the bone amputation. | |||||
| 2015-04-26 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell Technical Products, LLC. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was standing next to a pallet containing a box of yarn. The employee fell after twisting while unloading the box and broke his hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-04-11 | Dothan | Alabama | Twitchell, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee was removing yarn from a machine roller when his finger got caught and partially amputated by yarn. The machine was turned off with the power button on the control station at the time. | |||||
| 2015-02-07 | Dalton | Georgia | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on a twister machine, removing a package of yarn. The yarn fell into the shaft and pulled her finger into the shaft, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
| 2015-01-19 | Dalton | Georgia | Mohawk Industries | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was injured by falling more than 7 feet from the first level of a creel while moving a yarn dolly. The injury resulted in an overnight hospital stay. | |||||