# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015010526` · 1/16/2015 · VICTORIA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Mouth, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** 844 Bob White Road, VICTORIA, TEXAS, 77905
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was tightening a strap used to tie down equipment on his truck when the pry bar came out of the hole and hit him in the mouth, fracturing the maxilla bone.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*