# Fractures at Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2024098123` · 9/2/2024 · EL INDIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other confined spaces  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Company
- **Location:** Rig 254, EL INDIO, TEXAS, 78860
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out hoses on rig substructure scaffolding when he stepped back and fell through an edge of the scaffolding within the rig substructure. The employee fell 18 feet to the ground in an open cellar and sustained a fractured left tibia and a compression fracture to their T12 vertebra.

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