# Fractures at Sun Well Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032276` · 3/11/2017 · GRASSY BUTTE, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sun Well Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 131 Avenue SW, GRASSY BUTTE, NORTH DAKOTA, 58634
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a rig elevator to pull rods out of a hole. As he lowered blocks down the elevator, the block brakes failed, allowing the elevators to strike and fracture the upper phalange on his left thumb.

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