# Fractures at Nabors Drilling Technologies  USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032641` · 3/17/2018 · CATARINA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Nabors Drilling Technologies  USA, Inc.
- **Location:** Choya Ranch outside of Catrina Tx., CATARINA, TEXAS, 78836
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was extracting the drill string from the well bore (tripping out of the hole) and was struck by the drilling slips when the drilling string rotated resulting in a broken left leg.

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