# Fractures at Power Rig LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022076346` · 7/20/2022 · OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Power Rig LLC
- **Location:** North end of Wiley Post Airport, GPS 35.549689N, -97.640021W, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 73132
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a tong that was gripping a string of pipe that was within a mouse hole on a drilling rig. The crew was trying to remove 2 of the 3 sections of pipe from a string. On the third attempt to attach a pipe spinner unit, the pipe spinner unit impacted the employee's left thumb. The thumb was broken and lacerated.

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