# Fractures at Trinidad Drilling
> OSHA SIR `20171211973` · 12/17/2017 · RANKIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Trinidad Drilling
- **Location:** Rig 125 GPS N 31.5673/W-101.87, RANKIN, TEXAS, 79778
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing between an excavator and a cutting box when he was struck by the excavator arm, fracturing his left arm and ribs.

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