# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099302` · 9/8/2018 · FOMBELL, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Mud
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Rig 259, FOMBELL, PENNSYLVANIA, 16123
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

During the breaking of a connection, an employee was holding a "mud bucket" against a pipe to minimize the splashing of mud on an oil rig floor. As the two pieces of pipe were moved apart, a spray of mud caused the employee to fall and hit his head on a piece of equipment behind him. He suffered a scalp laceration and a skull fracture.

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