# Cuts, lacerations at Briley Well Svc
> OSHA SIR `2019032643` · 3/12/2019 · BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Briley Well Svc
- **Location:** Pendelton B Lease, BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS, 76424
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a well site where tubing was being pulled. As a block was being lowered to place a tube, the brake handle broke, allowing the block to fall down to the decking where the employee was working. The employee was struck by the block or other materials falling from about 6 to 10 feet above. He suffered a head laceration.

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