# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065505` · 6/23/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Caps, lids, covers, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** 10713 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Suite 800, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77064
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a well cap when it slid off the side of the sub-base, pinning his right leg against the sub-base and breaking his femur.

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