# Fractures at Hydro Resources
> OSHA SIR `2024021685` · 2/23/2024 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Rig tongs, power tongs
- **Secondary source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hydro Resources
- **Location:** 2810 Bob White Rd, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76501
- **NAICS:** 488390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tripping out pipe on a water drill rig. As he was breaking the drill pipe loose, a bolt on the snub line slipped out of the tong clamp which holds the pipe. The tong spun and struck the employee in the back of his upper right shoulder and pushed him into the driller's console with knobs to operate levers. The employee sustained fractures and a mouth injury.

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