# Fractures at Precision Driling
> OSHA SIR `2017010099` · 1/4/2017 · LA SALLE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Precision Driling
- **Location:** Well Site Kawata 31N-17AM, LA SALLE, COLORADO, 80645
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using hydraulic controls to lower an iron roughneck when his right pinky finger and knuckle were caught and fractured between the iron roughneck and the hydraulic cat head.

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