# Fractures at Bass Energy Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017054685` · 5/24/2017 · BIG SPRING, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Bass Energy Services, LLC
- **Location:** 209SL and 1680 FNL section 39, Block 32 TWN, BIG SPRING, TEXAS, 79721
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stabbing a valve on a stack while guiding a forklift operator who was lifting and holding the rigged valve. The strap slipped off the valve, allowing the valve to fall and strike the employee's lower left leg, breaking it.

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