# Fractures and burns at Warrior Technology
> OSHA SIR `2023065484` · 6/21/2023 · BIG SPRING, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Petroleum, crude oil
## Employer
- **Name:** Warrior Technology
- **Location:** Winford Central Tank Battery on High Peak Property near TX-350 & E C R 48, BIG SPRING, TEXAS, 79720
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were cleaning a storage tank for petroleum. Employee 1 was inside the tank and employee 2 was outside the tank approximately 30 to 40 feet away when a flash fire occurred. The force of the fire/explosion threw employee 1 into a wall. Employee 1 sustained fractures to the left collar bone and left ribs, a dislocated right elbow, a lacerated left ear, and burns. Employee 2 sustained second-and-third- degree burns to the face, chest, hands, and fingers.

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