# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co.
> OSHA SIR `2022064775` · 6/2/2022 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Existing floor opening
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co.
- **Location:** Tubb - Vaughn 21 G 107 H, H 1088, I 1098, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79707
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were rigging down. The injured employee was hooking up a flow line to a manifold. When he stepped back, he fell through a gap in the floor of the shaker, landing on his head on the ground about 12 feet below. He suffered multiple skull fractures and bleeding on the brain and was hospitalized.

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