# Fractures at Schlumberger Technology Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191010700` · 10/14/2019 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- **Location:** Ensign 100, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79706
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While cleaning equipment prior to rig down, an employee was working with a rig contractor to rig down a centrifuge slide with a forklift. The employee was sitting on a beam under the centrifuge and behind the slide when the slide slipped off the forklift, swinging and pinning the employee against the beam of the centrifuge. He sustained a fractured tibia and fibula just below the left knee.

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