# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181111490` · 11/7/2018 · WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Well Site Syverson 4-12H, WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58801
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was racking drill pipe from a derrick mans platform into a drill rack when a pipe likely swung at the top and struck the employee's head, resulting in a fractured skull.

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