# Fractures at Ensign Unites States Drilling "SW"
> OSHA SIR `2024054385` · 5/19/2024 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drill apparatus
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Ensign Unites States Drilling "SW"
- **Location:** GPS_Coordinates: N 31.8873 W -101.8372, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting pipe when they missed stabbing the pipe into the stump and the drill kept moving downward. The pipe casing then bowed and struck him in the face. The employee sustained a fracture.

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