# Fractures at Express Energy Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015030400` · 3/26/2015 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Express Energy Services, LLC
- **Location:** 35.516324, -102.2133018, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79101
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stabbing up in the derrick while a pipe was being brought up on an elevator. As the employee reached to unlatch the elevator, the tongs engaged, striking the employee's left hand resulting in a broken wrist.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*