# Fractures at HELMERICH & PAYNE, INC
> OSHA SIR `2017109721` · 10/10/2017 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** HELMERICH & PAYNE, INC
- **Location:** Rig #499, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning near an orbit valve that had a new actuator. The actuator showed that the valve was open when it was actually closed, causing a release that broke the employee's left leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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