# Fractures at Nabors Drilling
> OSHA SIR `2016043154` · 4/14/2016 · RUSTON, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Mining and drilling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Nabors Drilling
- **Location:** Rig X-35, RUSTON, LOUISIANA, 71272
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee putting thread protectors on drill pipe was resting his hand on a TM-80 iron rough neck. The rough neck operator did not see his hand and started retracting the equipment, which caught the employee's right hand in a pinch point and broke a bone.

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