# Fractures at PATERSON-UTI DRILLING COMPANY LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018021677` · 2/18/2018 · OKARCHE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** PATERSON-UTI DRILLING COMPANY LLC
- **Location:** 10 miles east of Okarche, OKARCHE, OKLAHOMA, 73762
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were hoisting drilling pipe, when the pipe fell, striking the back of an employee who was standing on the rig floor. The employee sustained fractured ribs and vertebrae.

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