# Fractures at Miller Tubular Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019021900` · 2/20/2019 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Miller Tubular Service, LLC
- **Location:** H&P #553, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79706
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing a drill pipe inspection using an x-ray/ultrasonic test. A forklift was picking up pipes; its boom pressed down on two joints of pipe, and when the pipes were raised they jumped off the pipe rack, striking and breaking an employee's left tibia and fibula.

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