# Fractures at Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087656` · 8/20/2024 · DOYLINE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Cactus Drilling Company, LLC
- **Location:** Cactus Drilling Rig 167. WW 30-31HC #2ALT 265-323 CR-181C, DOYLINE, LOUISIANA, 71023
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling back a stand of heavy-weight drill pipe so it could be racked in the derrick. While the driller was slacking off with the top-drive, the injured employee unlatched the drill pipe elevators and pulled the pipe toward himself. The pipe came at him faster than expected and as he tried to get out of the way, the pipe hit his left ankle/leg and fractured the left tibia.

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