# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025066189` · 6/27/2025 · UHRICHSVILLE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  coccygeal region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC
- **Location:** Rig 580, UHRICHSVILLE, OHIO, 44683
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a piece of equipment called a K-brace, approximately 3.5 feet off the ground. He was working to assemble part of the K-brace. He was driving a metal pin with a sledgehammer and put the sledgehammer on the ground. He then hopped off the K-brace backward and struck the handle of the sledgehammer as he came to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his left buttocks and a fractured tailbone.

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