# Fractures at Cudd Pumping Services
> OSHA SIR `2016032031` · 3/7/2016 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Cudd Pumping Services
- **Location:** Banay 02 WB, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79702
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a blowout preventer when his finger was crushed by a hydraulic valve. He was hospitalized and had surgery for fractured bones in the left ring phalanges.

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