# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010193` · 1/7/2017 · ABBEVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
- **Location:** Nabors Rig 624, ABBEVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70510
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were using an air hoist to lift/move a crossover sub (pipe) on the platform floor. The lifting cap on the air hoist failed and the load fell on an employee's hand, causing a burst wound in his palm and a fracture in the bottom bone of his hand.

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