# Fractures at Saginaw Pipe
> OSHA SIR `2016065115` · 6/9/2016 · SAGINAW, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Saginaw Pipe
- **Location:** 1980 Hwy 31 South, SAGINAW, ALABAMA, 35137
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a truck's flatbed trailer when he stepped on a piece of flat bar that flexed and fell 6 feet to the ground below. He fractured his left elbow.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*