# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at GDS International, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019010149` · 1/5/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
- **Secondary source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** GDS International, LLC
- **Location:** 9841 Windmill Park Ln, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77064
- **NAICS:** 333515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a top drive unit (which was sitting on a skid about 18 inches off the ground) helping to test it. The unit was in vertical position at that time. The employee touched a bail that had a sling wrapped around it and the bail fell to a track. The bail brushed the employee s shin and then landed on his right foot. As he pulled his foot out, he fell backward about 5 to 7 feet away from the bail. He was hospitalized with a bruised metatarsal and tarsal on his right foot and bruised back. He also required stitches on his left arm.

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