# Fractures at AusCo Petroleum, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016087087` · 8/1/2016 · FLORENCE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object breaking in hand
- **Source:** Turning handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** AusCo Petroleum, Inc.
- **Location:** Marco Polo, FLORENCE, COLORADO, 81226
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a stand of drilling pipe with a chain wrench when the wrench broke and hit his hand, breaking his wrist and finger.

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