# Fractures at Bison Drilling and Field Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171110938` · 11/14/2017 · GAIL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Bison Drilling and Field Services, LLC
- **Location:** Dragon #1 SWD (Surge Energy America), GAIL, TEXAS, 79738
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking down vee-door stairs, using the railing hand method on the hand rails. He was almost to the bottom when the roller assembly shifted and struck his left hand against the handrail, fracturing his pinky finger.

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