# Fractures at Quell Petroleum Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021931` · 2/26/2018 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Quell Petroleum Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Reagan 16 H, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to load a BOP component on a tractor trailer when the tractor trailer operator started to move the truck. The employee jumped off the trailer to avoid being struck by the BOP and struck the ground, breaking the right knee.

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