# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065292` · 6/17/2022 · HOBSON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** N28.9499 W-97.9846, HOBSON, TEXAS, 78117
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a tail rope to guide a stand of drill pipe into the mousehole from the derrick board. The tail rope became caught in the single joint elevators and tangled around the employee's lower right leg resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.

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