# Fractures at Wyoming Casing Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016098584` · 9/11/2016 · DELMONT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Wyoming Casing Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 2131 Bouquet Road, DELMONT, PENNSYLVANIA, 15626
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a rig floor. A casing basket fell into the tongs of a nearby rig, and the tongs would not release. Both retaining chains to the tongs released and the tong movement lever activated. The tongs swung and hit an employee, pinning him between the tongs and a derrick mast. He suffered one broken rib and one bruised lung.

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