# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098597` · 9/29/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** 8709 Miller Rd. 2, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77049
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping as a crane lowered a large metal plate. As the plate was being put into place, it struck the employee's left foot and broke it. The employee was hospitalized.

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