# Fractures at Akita Drilling USA Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2021021518` · 2/19/2021 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Ice, sleet, snow
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Akita Drilling USA Corp.
- **Location:** N 32.02700, W -102.17600, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a drilling rig floor. A piece of ice that had frozen to the drilling mast melted and fell off, landing on the employee's back and breaking three vertebrae.

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