# Fractures at Chacho's Lease Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076945` · 7/17/2025 · PORTLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object held or wielded by person
- **Source:** Other hammers, mallets
- **Secondary source:** Wellhead valves
## Employer
- **Name:** Chacho's Lease Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 210 Cosway Drive, PORTLAND, TEXAS, 78374
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hammer to unclog sand from a pipe connected to a wellhead. When the clogged sand broke loose, a trapped pocket of pressure blew the sand and the hammer out toward the employee. The sand hit his face and chest and the hammer struck the left side of his chest, fracturing two ribs. He also sustained a scratch on an eye.

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