# Fractures at HT Energy LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023109600` · 10/17/2023 · SEMINOLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Cheek(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged or flying object, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** HT Energy LLC
- **Location:** Scrambler Lease Co Rd 208, SEMINOLE, TEXAS, 79360
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running pipe into a hole on a rig floor. He was still running the other joint into the hole when the laydown machine shot the joint of pipe. The pipe hit the employee in the jaw and he fell backward, suffering a fractured cheekbone.

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