# Fractures at Elite Tubular Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015107725` · 10/16/2015 · HEIDELBERG, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Elite Tubular Services, LLC
- **Location:** 31.90148, -88.99901, HEIDELBERG, MISSISSIPPI, 39439
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The elevator lifting a 30 foot long pipe at an oil well shifted causing the bottom of the pipe to strike an employee in the back. This employee then fell against a second employee pushing the tongs into his face and causing employee 2 to fall and strike his head against the guardrail. Employee 2 was knocked unconscious for several seconds and was hospitalized with a fracture of the bottom orbital bone below the left eye.

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