# Cuts, lacerations at Patterson - UTI Drilling Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017088047` · 8/21/2017 · BARNHART, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Chains, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson - UTI Drilling Company, LLC
- **Location:** Rig 230, BARNHART, TEXAS, 76930
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A pole truck was lifting a piece of equipment when the chain failed and struck an employee on the head and shoulder. The employee suffered a head laceration.

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