# Fractures at QES Pressure Pumping LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043359` · 4/8/2018 · CHANUTE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** QES Pressure Pumping LLC
- **Location:** 1322 S. Grant, CHANUTE, KANSAS, 66720
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching a cable to a plug container to move it to the main rig floor. The employee had attached a hook to the plug container and was turning to continue pulling it when the employee stepped backwards into a pipe nest, falling approximately 2 feet and landing on a drill collar or pipe. The employee suffered a contusion and small crack to the right femur, requiring hospitalization.

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