# Fractures at PERFECTION STEEL ERECTION, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022054021` · 5/9/2022 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** PERFECTION STEEL ERECTION, INC.
- **Location:** 4530 Weber Road, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63123
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to bend rebar on a building structure while on a scissor lift. The rebar broke off while the employee was bending it and the employee fell from the lift to the ground below resulting in a fractured hand that required hospitalization.

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