# Fractures at Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2024109696` · 10/18/2024 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drilling machines, drill apparatus
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company
- **Location:** Rio Lobo State C 312H (Rig 496), PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out the elements in the double-rotating head. The peg that was welded to the rig floor, where the double-rotating head was being stored, broke at the weld causing the metal rotating head to fall and strike the employee's left leg and fracture it.

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