# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Black Hawk Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2017054419` · 5/16/2017 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Black Hawk Energy Services
- **Location:** Windham 11A # 2 HE, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to rig down a rig floor when the floor plate became hung up and slid out, striking him in the hard hat. He suffered a laceration on the right side of his forehead, requiring surgery, and fractures to his fifth and seventh vertebrae.

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