# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019088462` · 8/16/2019 · CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Catwalks
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** N 95.0759, W 97.7573, CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, 73018
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring a stabilizer from a forklift to a catwalk. One end of the stabilizer slid off the catwalk and fell onto the employee's lower left leg. The employee's tibia and fibula were broken.

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