# Fractures at Entech Engineering Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020065466` · 6/11/2020 · TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Entech Engineering Inc.
- **Location:** Hwy 146 near Hwy 3, TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, 77590
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting an emissions test of a nitrogen vaporizer unit inside an instrument test trailer when a pipe explosion occurred outside. Pieces of the steel pipe scattered in all directions, including toward the trailer. As a result, the employee suffered a fractured right radius bone, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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