# Fractures at Pioneer Well Service
> OSHA SIR `20161211482` · 12/9/2016 · WHEELOCK, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Pioneer Well Service
- **Location:** Topeka 6-12-H-1, WHEELOCK, NORTH DAKOTA, 58849
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tripping out rods on a servicing rig when his hand was caught above the rod transfer case near the swivel. His right arm was then caught and fractured on the rod transfer.

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