# Avulsions, enucleations at Ensign United States Drilling
> OSHA SIR `20191010353` · 10/3/2019 · KEENE, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Tooth (teeth)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Ensign United States Drilling
- **Location:** County Road 55, KEENE, NORTH DAKOTA, 58847
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were replacing stripping rubber. As they were pulling the line up with a lifting hook, the line became caught on a kick-out beam. When the line released from being snagged, it snapped up and the lifting hook struck the injured employee in the mouth. The employee lost three teeth, suffered a broken palate and maxilla, and had one tooth embedded into the roof of his mouth. He was hospitalized.

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