# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020010220` · 1/8/2020 · NEW TOWN, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Sunwall USA 41-17-H Pad, NEW TOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, 58763
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting a pipe laydown operation. An elevator struck a mast, kicking the pipe out so that it struck the employee in the face. The employee was hospitalized.

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