# Fractures at Willow Creek Companies, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024043563` · 4/24/2024 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple arm locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by propelled object or substance  unspecified
- **Source:** Plumbing augers, snakes
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Willow Creek Companies, Inc
- **Location:** 31.85367 N, 101.80064 W, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing near the end of a pipe when a pipe-cleaning pig exited the pipe and struck them in the arm, fracturing their humerus and radius.

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