# Fractures at Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024010158` · 1/8/2024 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Rotary system equipment
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
- **Location:** Skyfall State 8-11D 4WD, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee pulled a stand of drill pipe back and had just finished pushing it back into a "finger" before securing it with rope. The driller was coming down with top drives and blocks. A gust of wind blew the employee's secondary retention into the Kelly hose clamp. As a result, the top drive pulled the cable and the employee down into the steel frame of the derrick board. The employee's left hip and right femur were fractured.

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