# Fractures at SM Fencing & Energy Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077646` · 7/27/2018 · NEW TOWN, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** SM Fencing & Energy Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Clarks Creek USA CTB, NEW TOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, 58763
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out the anode on a treater shack when the anode, which was under pressure, struck the employee's waist. The employee's torso twisted and the employee sustained a broken leg. The wrong line on the treater shack was locked out at the time of the incident.

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