# Fractures at Brigade Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2023032590` · 3/22/2023 · SEMINOLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **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:** Brigade Energy Services
- **Location:** County Road 210 and Highway 214, SEMINOLE, TEXAS, 79360
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was nippling up the stripping of a stripper head. The bottom section of the stripper head came unthreaded from the top section and fell 5 feet, crushing the employee's left thumb against the blowout preventer bolts. The thumb was broken.

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