# Fractures at TETRA Technologies Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171211419` · 12/1/2017 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** TETRA Technologies Inc.
- **Location:** Sentinal State 55-28 Unit 1H, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a flat hose to a reel on a deployment vehicle when the hose rotated. The employee was then caught between the reel and the deployment vehicle, fracturing the skull, jaw, and cheekbones.

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