# Fractures at Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2021054373` · 5/28/2021 · GILLETT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Company
- **Location:** FM 80 and FM 119 south on FM 80, GILLETT, TEXAS, 78116
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was at an oil rig, cleaning a window while standing on the second rung of a ladder. The ladder shifted and he fell. He landed on the rig floor and suffered fractures to the left lower tibia and fibula.

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