# Fractures at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022010607` · 1/20/2022 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** N 31.1522 W 103.4683, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the process of rigging up equipment. While releasing ratchet straps with his right hand, the employee was supporting himself by placing his left hand on a gusset in the mast. As the second ratchet strap was released, the tong counterweight shifted and slid down about one foot, pinching the employee's fingers between the counterweight and the gusset and resulting in several broken fingers.

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