# Fractures at Patterson UTI Drilling
> OSHA SIR `2025021117` · 2/4/2025 · ORLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Machine and tool parts, accessories  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson UTI Drilling
- **Location:** N 31.8239 W - 104.0772, ORLA, TEXAS, 79770
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A forklift was setting 8" non-magnetic collars onto a holder that an employee had placed on the ground. As the employee walked away from the holder, the collars rolled toward him and struck his lower left leg. The employee sustained a fractured ankle.

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