# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098326` · 9/8/2024 · WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
- **Location:** Nabors B12, WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58801
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was applying thread protector covers and moving the floor wrench into a stow position so they could lay pipe down. The wrench crushed the employee's hand between the wrench housing and a pipe.

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