# Fractures at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2017077012` · 7/26/2017 · ELDORADO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** McGregor Unit 301, ELDORADO, TEXAS, 76936
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using hydraulic tongs to run pipe in a hole when the slips failed, causing the tongs to come down on the employee's right foot, fracturing it.

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