# Fractures at NorAm Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2025010176` · 1/7/2025 · CRANE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** NorAm Drilling Company
- **Location:** Neal Ranch, CRANE, TEXAS, 79731
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spinning pipe together when a catwalk was pushed into the pipe and the box end of the drill pipe struck the employee in the back. The employee sustained fractures to two ribs and six transverse processes.

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