# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019044343` · 4/30/2019 · BRIGHTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** 2.2 Miles east of Hwy 85 & CR 6, BRIGHTON, COLORADO, 80601
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was working on the catwalk pedestal of an oil and gas drilling rig. While lifting a single joint of drill pipe, it fell out of the elevator and came down on the injured employee's left hand which was on the handrail. The employee sustained lacerations, fractures and nerve damage to the left hand.

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