# Fractures at Blackhawk Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2023032332` · 3/14/2023 · PYOTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Blackhawk Energy Services
- **Location:** UL Lead King 344035-16 interstate 20 and 115, PYOTE, TEXAS, 79777
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been working on the rig floor. While pulling rods, the rod elevators jumped off the rod hook and came free from the rod. The rod elevators then fell and struck an employee on the head resulting in a head laceration and a neck fracture.

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