# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020087510` · 8/8/2020 · STANTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Pumps
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Rig 807, STANTON, TEXAS, 79782
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee swung a sledge hammer to hit a hammer union. The sledge hammer missed and caused the employee to lose balance and fall approximately 3 feet, hitting his back on a mud pump module and suction pipe. The employee sustained fractures to the L2, L3, and L4 vertebrae.

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