# Cuts, lacerations at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2017099107` · 9/22/2017 · SWEETWATER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** Oil Well, OXO SWD#1, SWEETWATER, TEXAS, 79556
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting well-servicing operations when a hammer union came apart and fell, striking and lacerating the employee's head.

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