# Fractures at Helmerich & Payne Drilling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065949` · 6/23/2025 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Helmerich & Payne Drilling, Inc.
- **Location:** 31.5498910 N / Long: -101.6812463 W, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79701
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to straighten up a lifting sub for a reamer while it was inside the automated floor wrench. The spinner doors closed, catching the employee's right forearm. The employee sustained a fractured right radius and a displaced fracture of the right ulna. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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