# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Willow Creek Companies, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021097620` · 9/4/2021 · KERMIT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Willow Creek Companies, LLC
- **Location:** Halley Compressor Station, KERMIT, TEXAS, 79745
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing grounding tools as part of an addition to a compressor station. An employee was hammer-drilling a ground rod when the edge of a trench failed; the employee slipped, fell, and landed on the rod, which impaled his inner thigh.

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