# Fractures at SOUTHERN OHIO FABRICATORS,INC DBA SOFCO ERECTORS
> OSHA SIR `2021031845` · 3/1/2021 · WEST JEFFERSON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SOUTHERN OHIO FABRICATORS,INC DBA SOFCO ERECTORS
- **Location:** 6400 State Route 29, WEST JEFFERSON, OHIO, 43162
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up a second bar joist to some rigging when the top bar-joist came loose and struck the employee, resulting in a lower right leg fracture, a cranial laceration, fractured ribs, and a C-2 fracture.

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