# Fractures at NOV Tuboscope
> OSHA SIR `2025021699` · 2/20/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** NOV Tuboscope
- **Location:** 10222 Sheldon Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77049
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a 12-inch x 40-foot pipe in the pipe pinning machine when their arm was caught between the pipe and the machine, resulting in a broken arm.

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