# Fractures at Permian Basin Materials, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021636` · 2/19/2025 · KERMIT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Permian Basin Materials, LLC
- **Location:** 1936 Highway 18, KERMIT, TEXAS, 79745
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the bucket of a front end loader to reach a frozen water valve and defrost it using a blow torch. While lifting himself up, he lost his balance and fell 20 feet to the concrete slab below. He suffered fractures to both wrists and a fractured orbital bone.

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