# Fractures at Helmerich & Payne, IDC
> OSHA SIR `2024032112` · 3/7/2024 · LA MESA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Rotary system equipment
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich & Payne, IDC
- **Location:** H&P Rig 248, LA MESA, TEXAS, 79331
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inserting drill pipe slips into the rotary table by kicking the slips while tripping drill pipe out of the hole when his foot was caught between the slips and the drill pipe, fracturing three toes and lacerating his right foot.

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