# Fractures at Felderhoff Brothers Drilling
> OSHA SIR `2017010049` · 1/4/2017 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Felderhoff Brothers Drilling
- **Location:** XTO Well-Guycoden Unit 2- 2507BH, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a catwalk (a long piece of equipment that helps move tube) against a rig to perform an inspection when his right ring finger was caught and fractured between the catwalk skate and a pin. He was hospitalized.

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