# Cuts, lacerations at KD Energy, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010959` · 1/30/2017 · GANADO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** KD Energy, LLC
- **Location:** 7 miles from Ganado, GANADO, TEXAS, 77962
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting well maintenance when the flow line (two inch steel pipe) snapped and struck the employee in the head, back and pelvic areas. The employee then fell approximately three feet sustaining a head laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

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