# Fractures at ATS Drilling
> OSHA SIR `20241211244` · 12/5/2024 · DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ATS Drilling
- **Location:** Terminal F at 303 S Services Road, DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS, 75261
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to pour concrete. A barricade for the swing radius was set up behind and to the right of the drilling rig. The employee began drilling and swung the equipment to the left to begin the spoil pile. The back of the equipment swung to the right, struck the employee, and pinned him against the fall protection cage. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs and an injury to the transverse process of a vertebra.

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