# Fractures at Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2019022062` · 2/25/2019 · WATONGA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company
- **Location:** Rig 548, WATONGA, OKLAHOMA, 73772
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A derrickman was trying to latch a stand of drill pipe at the derrick board. The stand pulled him off the board, pinning his left forearm against the safety gate and breaking it.

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